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I am a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, the Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education (2008-2013), and the David Huntington Faculty Scholar. I'll be the Mathematical Association of America's 2009 Hedrick Lecturer. I have received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, an American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, a Frederick E. Terman fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, the presidential award PECASE, and the Brown Faculty Fellowship. I have received the Coxeter-James Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society, and André-Aisenstadt Prize from the CRM in Montréal. (This may give you a clue that I am Canadian.)

This spring, I am co-chairing the jumbo research semester in algebraic geometry at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Last fall, I taught Math 120 (Modern Algebra) and Math 245 (Topics in algebraic gometry: introduction to moduli spaces). Last year, I taught a three-quarter sequence on the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry. Here are course notes from the 2005-06 course. I hope to post a much-revised version of these at some point. Up until Fall 2007, I coordinated the William Lowell Putnam competition at Stanford, and in conjunction with that I ran a weekly problem-solving seminar for talented undergraduates, as well as a Masterclass for experts --- more information here. Here are some older teaching links.

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Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford CA USA 94305
phone: 650-725-6284 fax: 650-725-4066 E-mail: vakil[at]math[dot]you-know-where[dot]edu