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Welcome!

I am a Professor at the Mathematics Department at UCLA. Before coming here, I was teaching at University of Minnesota and at MIT. Prior to that, I was a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MSRI. I got my Ph.D. from Harvard University. I did my undergraduate studies at Moscow State University.

Research

I work in Discrete Mathematics. More specifically, my research spans the following topics:

Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry,
Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics,
Probability and Computations on Groups.

My undergraduate advisor was Alexandre Kirillov (currently at UPenn). My graduate advisor was Persi Diaconis (currently at Stanford). As a postdoc at Yale, I was working with László Lovász (currently at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary). As a NSF postdoc at MIT, I was working with Richard Stanley (still at MIT).

Here are some of my papers. My Google Scholar profile. My MO profile. My blog.

Here is my book: Lectures on Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry. My Catalan Numbers Page.

Teaching:

Math 115A (Spring 2013)
Math 285N (Tilings) (Winter 2013)
Math 206 (Combinatorial Theory) (Fall 2012)
Math 61 (Introduction to Discrete Structures) (Fall 2012)
Math 180 (Combinatorics) (Spring 2012)
Math 285N (Combinatorics, Probability and Computations on groups) (Winter 2011)
Math 285N (Enumerative Combinatorics) (Fall 2010)
Math 285N (Discrete Geometry) (Spring 2010)

For the old courses, see my Teaching Page.

Links to some lecture series:

Resume:

I have a short (.pdf file, 1 page) and an extended (.pdf file, 24 pages) versions of the resume.
I also have a (very dated) list of my coauthors with their web pages (if available).

Former Ph.D. students:

Mike Korn (MIT, 2004). His thesis.
Sergiy Sidenko (MIT, 2008). His thesis.
Matjaz Konvalinka (MIT, 2008). His thesis (see also here).
Stedman Wilson (UCLA 2012).

Contact information:

Igor Pak
Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Office: Math Sciences 6125
Phone: (310) 825-4701 (no message service)
Fax: (310) 206-6673
E-mail: my last name AT math DOT my university.edu

Last updated: 4/2/2013