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Ian Agol

Professor

BS Mathematics, Caltech, 1992

PhD Mathematics, UC San Diego, 1998. Advisor Michael Hartley Freedman

 

Curriculum Vitae: 
application/pdf iconresume19.pdf
Research
Primary Research Area: 
Geometry/Topology
Research Interests: 
Low-dimensional topology
Contact Information
921 Evans Hall
Office Hours: 
M W 12:10-1 pm https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/4087589493
ianagol [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
+1 (510) 642-4377

Board of Trustees MSRI 

 

Associate Editor, Journal of the American Mathematical Society

 

Associate Editor, Annals of Mathematics

 

Associate Editor, Communications of the American Mathematical society

 

Editor, Geometry and Topology

 

Editor, Forum of Mathematics, ∑

 

American Mathematical Society Editorial Boards Committee

 

Articles on the arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/a/agol_i_1.html

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=prNMjBwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

All's well that ends well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Agol

 

http://mathoverflow.net/users/1345/ian-agol


Intersections of curves on the torus

Videos:

Minerva lecture 1, Princeton, October 2012

Minerva lecture 2

Minerva lecture 3

3-manifold groups, IAS, October 2015

RFRS for congruence subgroups, ICTP, June 2016

The virtual fibering conjecture, ICTP, June 2016

No Boundaries conference in honor of Benson Farb, U of C, October 2017

Public dropbox folder with old web pages:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cxdm5tu5hsnho0i/AADzTItxcahyBI7oXZXVxjjta?dl=0

Publications
Selected Publications: 
  1. Agol, Ian(1-CA); Liu, Yi(1-CA)
    Presentation length and Simon's conjecture. 
    J. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (2012), no. 1, 151–187. [MR] [GS?]
  2. Agol, Ian, The virtual Haken conjecture, with an appendix by Agol, Daniel Groves, and Jason Manning. 
    Doc. Math. 18 (2013), 1045–1087. [MR] [GS?]
  3. Agol, Ian(1-CA-NDM); Groves, Daniel(1-ILCC-MS); Manning, Jason Fox(1-CRNL)
    An alternate proof of Wise's malnormal special quotient theorem.(English summary) 
    Forum Math. Pi 4 (2016), e1, 54 pp.  [MR] [GS?]
  4. Agol, Ian (2008). Criteria for virtual fibering. J. Topol. 1 No.2, 269-284. [MR] [GS?]
  5. Agol, Ian and Storm, Peter A. and Thurston, William P. (2007). Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 No.4, 1053-1077 (electronic). With an appendix by Nathan Dunfield. [MR] [GS?]
Additional Files: 
application/pdf iconExtended version of submission to Proceedings of the 2014 ICM