Azer Akhmedov   

Visiting Assistant Professor


Office: South Hall 6702
Phone: (805) 893 2889
E-mail: akhmedov AT math.ucsb.edu

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   EDUCATION: Ph.D. Yale University, 2004.



     PUBLICATIONS:         

         

               On the girth of finitely generated groups PDF.  Journal of Algebra, 268, 2003.  no.1. 198-208.
               The girth of groups satisfying Tits Alternative. PDF Journal of Algebra, 287, 2005. no.2.  275-282.
               Travelling  salesman problem in groups. PDF  Contemp. Math., vol. 372, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2005.
               Perturbations of Wreath Products and Quasi-Isometric Rigidity I. IMRN. vol. 2008, year 2008. PDF
               A group without big tiles.  Submitted to Annals of Mathematics.
               A new metric criterion for non-amenability I.  Submitted to Israel Journal of Math. 
               A new metric criterion for non-amenability II. Preprint.
               Perturbations of Wreath Products and Quasi-Isometric Rigidity II. Preprint. (in prep)
               Uniform Quasi-Isometry.   Submitted to Geometriae Dedicata.
               Orbit classification of braid group action on the set of generating systems of finite Coxeter groups. Old Unpublished Preprint.
               On Andrews-Curtis Graphs of Groups.  Preprint.
               Chordal and Timbral Morphologies using Hamiltonian Cycles. Joint with M.Winter. (musical theory) Preprint.
              
               please contact me in person for papers/preprints not available on this page.


               ALSO PUBLISHED:  many short stories, essays and translations from Modern American Literature.

                 
               

           SOME INVITED TALKS:

              
               Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah. May 31 - June 03, 2005.
               Caltech, Topology Seminar.
               AMS Conference,  Santa Barbara,  April 16-17, 2005.
               University of California Santa Barbara. Topology Seminar.
               University of Chicago, Topology/Geometry Seminar.
               Cornell University, Topology Seminar.
               Rutgers University, Group Theory Seminar.
               Yale University, Dynamics and Group Actions Seminar.
               University of California Irvine,  Algebra Seminar.
               AMS Conference, Boston. October 5-6 2002.
               Crystallographic Groups Conference. Kortrijk, Belgium. May22-25, 2002.



      TEACHING:

         
             Spring 08:  Math 115B

             Previous Teaching (last 3 years) :

            Math 115A Introduction to Number Theory.
            Math 5B    Vector Calculus.
            Math 116  Combinatorics.
            Math103,  Introduction to Group Theory.  
            Math8,      Transition to higher mathematics.        
            Math34A, Calculus in social and life sciences.        
            Math8,      Transition to Higher Mathematics.  
            Math116,  Combinatorics. 
            Math34B  Calculus in Social and Life Sciences, II
            Math117   Real Analysis.
            Math3C    Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
            Math34A  Calculus in Social and Life Sciences.
            Math137.  Graph Theory.
           

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