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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
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

 

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


 

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