My name is Ilya Kapovich, and I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Hunter College of CUNY. I am also a member of doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The above photo is licensed by under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. The photo was taken by Ilya Kapovich in December 2012 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
My office at Hunter is HE 917, tel. 212-772-5303
My second office, at the CUNY Graduate Center, is in 4214.07
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kapovich
Contact information
e-mail [email protected] [preferred way of contacting me]
office phone 212-772-5303
fax 212-772-4858
office location: Hunter East 917
Mailing address:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Room 919/944 East
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065, U.S.A.
Geometric Group Theory mailing list.
I currently administer a geometric group theory mailing list [email protected] for announcements about events and positions related to geometric group theory. To submit such an announcement, e-mail it directly to [email protected]. The list’s homepage is located at this link. You can subscribe/unsubscribe to the list there (you can also do that by sending me an e-mail request at [email protected]).
New York Group Theory Seminar.
I am a co-organizer of the New York Group Theory Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center. In the Fall 2024 semester the seminar meets in a hybrid format, with some in person talks and some online Zoom talks. The in-person talks are on Fridays at 4:15pm in room 5417 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The onine Zoom talks are on Fridays at 4:00pm U.S. eastern time. I also maintain the NYGT Seminar mailing list. If you would like to receive the weekly announcements, including Zoom links and passwords, for the seminar talks, please e-mail me (from an academic institution affiliated e-mail address) a request to [email protected]. Videos of prior NYGT Seminar talks are available at the NYGT Youtube channel.
Human rights work
*I served as the Chair of the AMS Committee on the Human Rights of Mathematicians (02/01/2020-01/31/2021)
If you have a matter requiring the committee’s attention, please e-mail [email protected]
*I am a member of the Steering Committee of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.
*AMS and ICM 2022, letter to the editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 68, number 5 (May 2021), pp. 681-682
* Putin is distracting the world from his atrocities letter to the editor, Washington Post, February 21, 2022
My graduate students
- Lucas Sabalka (PhD 2006, UIUC); an applied mathematician at Nebraska Global
- Gregory Kelsey (PhD 2011, UIUC); Assistant Professor at Bellarmine University
- Brent Solie (PhD 2011, UIUC); Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Patrick Reynolds (PhD 2011, UIUC); Machine learning engineer, Apple
- Brian Ray (PhD 2014, UIUC); senior analyst at Daniel H. Wagner Associates)
- Neha Gupta (PhD 2016, UIUC); Director of Math Scheduling, Georgia Tech
- Caglar Uyanik (PhD 2017, UIUC); Gibbs Assistant Professor, Yale
- Elizabeth Field (PhD 2020, UIUC); postdoctoral researcher, University of Utah
- Heejoung Kim (PhD 2021, UIUC)
- Zachary Simon (M.Sc. 2020, City College of CUNY)
- Weiyan Lin (PhD, current, CUNY Graduate Center)
