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Savvas, Michail
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Michail Savvas

Instructor
Department of Mathematics



msavvas@utexas.edu


Office Location
PMA

Postal Address
2515 SPEEDWAY
AUSTIN, TX 78712

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 

  • Postdoctoral Instructor 
    The University of Texas at Austin, 2021 - present
  • S.E.W. Visiting Assistant Professor 
    University of California, San Diego, 2018 - 2021

Education 

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics
    Stanford University, 2012 - 2018
  • B.A. Honours and Master of Mathematics
    University of Cambridge, 2008 - 2012

My main research interests span Donaldson-Thomas theory and other enumerative theories of Calabi-Yau manifolds, moduli spaces and stacks of sheaves and complexes, derived categories and derived algebraic geometry, and logarithmic geometry.

Algebraic Geometry

  • Good Moduli Spaces in Derived Algebraic Geometry, joint with E. Ahlqvist, J. Hekking and M. Pernice. Submitted. [arXiv: 2309.16574] 
  • Cosection Localization for D-Manifolds and (−2)-Shifted Symplectic Derived Schemes, Revisited. Submitted. [arXiv: 2309.03066
  • Stabilizer Reduction for Derived Stacks and Applications to Sheaf-Theoretic Invariants, joint with J. Hekking and D. Rydh. Submitted. [arXiv: 2209.15039]
  • Virtual Riemann-Roch Theorems for Almost Perfect Obstruction Theories. manuscripta mathematica (2023).  [Journal] [arXiv: 2207.14397]
  • The d-critical structure on the Quot scheme of points of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold, joint with A. Ricolfi. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (to appear). [arXiv: 2106.16133]
  • Cosection Localization and Vanishing for Virtual Fundamental Classes of D-ManifoldsAdvances in Mathematics, Volume 398, 2022, 108232. [Journal] [arXiv: 2007.14023]
  • Localizing Virtual Structure Sheaves for Almost Perfect Obstruction Theories, joint with Y.-H. Kiem. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Volume 8, 2020, e61. [Journal] [arXiv: 2007.06820]
  • Intrinsic Stabilizer Reduction and Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 22(4), 1987-2025. [Journal] [arXiv: 2005.13768
  • K-Theoretic Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants, joint with Y.-H. Kiem. International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN), 2022, pp. 2123--2158. [Journal] [arXiv: 1912.04966]
  • Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants via Kirwan Blowups, joint with Y.-H. Kiem and J. Li. Journal of Differential Geometry (to appear). [arXiv: 1712.02544

Other (Artificial Intelligence, Combinatorics)

  • Categorical Semantics of Compositional Reinforcement Learning, joint with G. Bakirtzis and U. Topcu. Submitted. [arXiv: 2208.13687]
  • Shutout Games on Graphs, joint with A. Cioba. Mathematika, volume 61 (2015), issue 03, pp. 523-530. [Journal] [PDF]

the University of Texas at Austin

Instructor of Record:

  • M 365C : Real Analysis I, Fall 2022.
  • M 328K : Introduction to Number Theory, Spring 2023.
  • M 408C : Differential and Integral Calculus, Fall 2021.
  • M 408K : Differential Calculus, Fall 2023.

University of California, San Diego

Instructor of Record:

  • MATH 109 : Mathematical Reasoning, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021.
  • MATH 102 : Applied Linear Algebra, Spring 2019, Fall 2019.
  • MATH 18 : Linear Algebra, Spring 2021.
  • MATH 10B : Calculus II, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2021.
  • MATH 10A : Calculus I, Fall 2018, Fall 2019.

Stanford University

Instructor of Record:

  • MATH 20 : Calculus, Fall 2017, Winter 2018.

Teaching Assistant (TA):

  • MATH 63CM : Modern Mathematics: Continuous Methods, Spring 2017. Instructor: Jonathan Luk.
  • MATH 53 : Ordinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra, Spring 2016. Instructor: Lexing Ying.
  • MATH 53H : Honors Multivariable Mathematics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Spring 2015. Instructor: Jun Li.
  • MATH 51 : Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables, Winter 2014. Instructor: Tian Yang.

Course Assistant (CA):

  • MATH 215A : Complex Analysis, Fall 2014. Instructor: Eleny Ionel.
  • MATH 120 : Groups and Rings, Fall 2013. Instructor: Martin Luu.