Harry Tamvakis

Teaching

Riemann Surfaces

Research

Recent Work:

Stable Grothendieck polynomials and K-theoretic factor sequences
(with Anders Buch, Andrew Kresch, Mark Shimozono, and Alexander Yong,
Mathematische Annalen 340 (2008), 359-382.)

Arakelov theory of even orthogonal Grassmannians
(Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 82 (2007), 455-475.)

Topological symmetry groups of complete graphs in the 3-sphere
(with Erica Flapan and Ramin Naimi,
J. London Mathematical Society 73 (2006), 237-251.)

Topological symmetry groups of graphs embedded in the 3-sphere
(with Erica Flapan, Ramin Naimi, and James Pommersheim,
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 80 (2005), 317-354.)

Complete List of Papers and Preprints

Research-Expository Papers and Lectures:

The connection between representation theory and Schubert calculus
L'Enseignement Mathematique 50 (2004), 267-286.

Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology of Grassmannians
"Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties", 271-297, Trends in Math., Birkhäuser, 2005.

Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians
"Geometric Methods in Algebra and Number Theory", 311-338, Progress in Math. 235, Birkhäuser, 2005.

Quantum cohomology of homogeneous varieties: a survey
Oberwolfach meeting on Algebraic Groups, April 2007.

Links

• Mathematics department seminars

• The Front for the mathematics preprint arXiv.

• The Arakelov geometry preprint archive.

• The homepage of the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Personal favorites:

• Information sources on Greece, compiled by the Hellenic Resources Institute.

• Problemesis, a web-magazine devoted to chess problems.

• StrateGems, the official publication of The Good Companions.

• The retrograde analysis corner, another nice chess problem site.