Ian Agol

Professor

BS Mathematics, Caltech, 1992

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

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research

Primary Research Area:

Geometry/Topology

Research Interests:

Low-dimensional topology

Contact Information

921 Evans Hall

ianagol [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu

+1 (510) 642-4377

Board of Trustees SLMath/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, ∑

2019-2021: American Mathematical Society Editorial Boards Committee

James H. Simons Chair Mathematics 2016-2021

Simons Investigator, 2015-2025

Chair topology panel ICM 2022

Articles on the arxiv:

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

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

Popular articles on Ian Agol's work:

All's well that ends well

Getting into Shapes

Breakthrough Prize 2015

How complex is a knot?

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

Seeking a computer-free proof of the 4-color problem (video from the 2018 Breakthrough Prize Symposium)

Ribbon concordance of knots (starting at 1:46:45)

Ian Agol Laboratory ICMAT

Public dropbox folder with old web pages:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qheav6khgrar70b/AADyGbOmR_8siU6F1NV2iGDMa?dl=0

Publications

Selected Publications:

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?]
Agol, Ian, The virtual Haken conjecture, with an appendix by Agol, Daniel Groves, and Jason Manning.
Doc. Math. 18 (2013), 1045–1087. [MR] [GS?]
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?]
Agol, Ian (2008). Criteria for virtual fibering. J. Topol. 1 No.2, 269-284. [MR] [GS?]
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:

$application/pdf icon$ Extended version of submission to Proceedings of the 2014 ICM