daniil-mamaev

[Dan Mamaev]

Hi everyone,

I’m Daniil Mamaev from St. Petersburg (Russia). I prefer when people call me «Даня», but it can be hard for those who don’t speak Russian. 

I’ve just finished my second bachelor’s year in Mathematics and TCS at St. Petersburg State University. I’m mainly interested in algebraic geometry and algebraic groups, my advisor is Nicolai (Alexandrovich) Vavilov.

In St. Petersburg we don’t have modules like Rings I or Algebraic Geometry X; it is just a 2-year general algebra course and a number of special courses and seminars. In general course you are taught stuff like category theory or homological algebra. General course lectures are accompanied by practice sessions and there is an exam in the end of every term. Special courses and seminars are more specific and there are no exams on them (at least for now). Last semester I attended special courses «Combinatorial species» (it was a mixture of category theory, combinatorics and representation theory, so maybe it doesn’t count) and «Kac--Moody groups», and the seminar «The arithmetic of modular curves». As for the previous terms, I must say that I had a course on Lie algebras and some representation theory was a part of the general course practices.

As many of us, I didn’t manage to look at the camera, but you can recognise me by the earring.

All the best,

D. M.

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

 

27.07.2017, 00:25, "Dan Mamaev" <dan.m...@gmail.com>:

Yes, that's exactly the problem in rendering Russian palatalised consonants, "Dana" is FAR too

hard, "Dania" is FAR too soft, "Даня" is somewhere in between, you do not separate the

PALATALISED consonant from the vowel.

It's the same with the short form of my name, "Коля", which is NEITHER "Kola", NOR "Kolia",

since in Russian the consonant is palatalised (so it's NOT the first one of those), but there is NO

hiatus between the consonant and the vowel (so it's NOT the second one either!).

However, I'm strongly biased to the GREEK form of my name, Nikolai, the only person who is

allowed to call me Nicola, is my friend Corrado De Concini, but he is Roman anyway, and cannot

do much better than that.

As for the courses, Даня is cheating again, he switched the program and ONLY lists algebra

courses he has taken LAST semester, in fact, he attended many more, INCLUDING (but, as an

American lawyer would say, NOT LIMITED TO) Modular representations of finite groups, previous

semester (--- "the American President can identify many countries on the map, including, BUT NOT

LIMITED TO Canada and Mexico"). Is it a fact that you've taken a course on Lie algebras by Alexander

Luzgarev? Well, there was a seminar on commutative algebra at PDMI, you attended with Pavel,

where I first saw you, and I can only guess what was there in between.

 

N.V.