Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (born 16 December 1972, in
Tomsk
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, Russia) is a Russian-German
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
.
He works in the field of Applied and Combinatorial
Topology
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, where he publishes under the name ''Dmitry N. Kozlov''.
Biography
Feichtner-Kozlov obtained his Ph.D. from the
Royal Institute of Technology
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, Stockholm in 1996, with thesis ''Extremal Combinatorics, Weighting Algorithms, and Topology of Subspaces Arrangements'' written under the direction of
Anders Björner
Anders Björner (born 17 December 1947) received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1979, under Bernt Lindström. He is a Sweden, Swedish professor of mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockhol ...
. In 2004, after longer stays at the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
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in
Berkeley, California
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, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, the
Institute for Advanced Study
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in
Princeton, New Jersey
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, the
University of Washington
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in
Seattle
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, the
University of Bern
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, and the Royal Institute of Technology, he assumed the position of assistant professor at
ETH Zurich
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, Switzerland.
Since 2007, he works at the
University of Bremen, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Algebra and Geometry, and is the director of the Institute for
Algebra
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Elementary a ...
,
Geometry
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,
Topology
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and their applications.
Feichtner-Kozlov has done research on various topics, such as: topological methods in combinatorics, including applications to graph colorings;
combinatorially defined polyhedral and cell complexes; combinatorial structures in geometry and topology, such as stratifications and compactifications of spaces; combinatorial aspects of chain complexes, such as coboundary expansion. He has also done interdisciplinary work, e.g., developing rigorous mathematical methods in theoretical
distributed computing
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.
Feichtner-Kozlov is the recipient of the following prizes: Wallenberg prize 2003, Goran Gustafsson prize 2004, European Prize in Combinatorics 2005. The book "Distributed Computing through Combinatorial Topology",
which he wrote together with computer scientists
Maurice Herlihy
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and
Sergio Rajsbaum has been selected as a Notable Book on the Best of Computing 2013 list by the
Association for Computing Machinery
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.
He is a managing editor of the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology, published by
Springer-Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
.
Personal life
Feichtner-Kozlov is married to
Eva-Maria Feichtner
Eva-Maria Elisabeth Feichtner (born 1972) is a German mathematician, the founder and director of the Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and their Applications at the University of Bremen, where she is professor of algebra and vice presiden ...
, with whom he frequently collaborates mathematically.
Selected publications
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See also
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Discrete Morse theory
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Topological combinatorics
References
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1972 births
Living people
People from Tomsk
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Russian emigrants to Germany
21st-century German mathematicians
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Academic staff of the University of Bremen
Combinatorialists
Topologists