Curriculum Vitae

ARTAN SHESHMANI

Citizenship, IRAN (US Permanent Resident)Address: Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA)

Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 20 Garden Street,Room 110, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139

Office Phone, +1 (614) 565-1659

Research interests

Algebraic Geometry, Enumerative Geometry, Mathematics of String theory, Machine learning (ML),Natural Language Processing (NLP), Mathematical Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Erdos number = 3 Einstein number = 4

Current affiliations

2016 – current Pure Mathematician/ Senior personnel at Simons Collaboration Program in Homo-logical Mirror Symmetry Harvard CMSA-HMS, Harvard University CMSA.

2020 – current Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics, Harvard University

2016 – current Associate Professor of Mathematics (with tenure): Center for Quantum Geometry ofModuli Spaces / and Institut for Matematik, Aarhus Universitet .

2017 – current International affiliate member, International laboratory for Mirror Symmetry andAutomorphic Forms

Former Employment

2016 – 2016 Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA

2016 – 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA

2015 – 2016 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Kavli IPMU

2013 – 2016 Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

2012 – 2013 Member, Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik

2011 – 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia

2010 – 2011 Affiliate Member at Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge

2006 – 2010 Research and Teaching assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Visiting positions

2016 (Jun – Jul) Member, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France

2015 (Apr – May) Senior Visiting Fellow, Mathematics Institute at University of Warwick, UK

2013 (May – May) Visiting Scientist, Erwin Schrodinger Int. Inst. Math. Phys., Austria

2009 (Jan – May) Visiting Graduate Student, MSRI, Berkeley, CA

2008 (Mar – Mar) Visiting Graduate Student, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ

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2007 (Nov – Nov) Visiting Graduate Student, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ

Education

2011 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA(Advisors: Sheldon Katz and Tom Nevins)

2008 M.Sc. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA2003 B.Sc. Double major Mechanical/Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,

IRAN1999 Diploma Mathematics and Physics, National Organization of Development of Exceptional Tal-

ents (NODET), Tabriz, IRAN,

Grants

2020 – 2024 European research leader grant, DFF. Single PI, $1 Million (together with Extra $400kfunding co-financed by Harvard University CMSA and Institut for Matematik, AarhusUniversitet.).

2019 – 2019 BIRS grant, Co-PI (Eduardo Gonzales and Pablo Solis), Conference on Moduli andInvariants .

2017 NSF, Co-PI (with Tom Nevins, Albrecht Klemm and Ron Donagi) NSF#1736228, Con-ference on Enumerative Geometry, Mirror Symmetry, and Physics

2017 Senior personnel, Supplement for NSF #1306313 (PI: Shing-Tung Yau) , GeometricStructures in Field and String Theory

Postdocts under my mentorship

2020 – 2022 Cody Long (Harvard CMSA/ Harvard Physics), Co-supervising with Matthew Reece2019 – 2021 Michael Mcbreen (Harvard CMSA and center for QGM)2018 – 2020 Dennis Borisov (Harvard CMSA and center for QGM)-Now Assist. Professor at U.

Windsor2018 – 2020 Enno Kessler (Harvard CMSA), Co-supervising with Shing-Tung Yau

Scientific/Academic honors and awards

2017 – current Associate member, International laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and AutomorphicForms, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation

2017 Honorary Member of the MIT Imaginarium of Technology, MIT Media Lab ( and gotfeatured in IMT/ MIT news).

2009 , 2010 James D. Hogan and university of Illinois Fellowships2010 University of Illinois Dissertation Completion Fellowship2009 David G. Bourgin Fellowship2009 Member of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society2007 , 2009 R.E.G.S 2 Fellowship2006 , 2008 Department of Mathematics internal Fellowship2006 – 2009 Outstanding instructor at the University of Illinois (4 consecutive years)2006 – 2010 NSF graduate student travel awards (5 consecutive years)2004 Ranked 1’st place in M.Sc. level in M.E.2003 Brilliant talent award by IRAN’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. M.Sc.

entrance without nationwide exam2003 Ranked 3’rd place in B.Sc. level (out of 152) in M.E.2000 Brilliant talent award by IRAN’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Per-

mission to double major in M.E. and C.E Sharif University of Technology.

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1999 Ranked 61’st place in IRAN’s nationwide university entrance exam among 500000+participants

Selected invited talks

2019 Oct. Trieste, Italy, (ICTP), Workshop on Gauge theory and differential invariants

—— Jun. Moscow, Russia, (Steklov Institute), Conference on birational geometry and Fano varieties

—— Apr. Cambridge, MA, (MIT), Geometric representation theory seminar

—— Mar. Cambridge, MA, (Brandeis University), Harvard-MIT-Brandeis-Northeastern Colloquiuum

—— Feb. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, (University of Pittsburg), Colloquiuum.

—— Jan. Sanya, China (Sanya international mathematical forum), International workshop on mirrorsymmetry and related topics.

2018 Oct. Moscow, Russia (Higher school of economics), Conference on Higgs theory.

—— Aug. Novosibirsk, Russia (Sobolev Institute), Seiberian summer school (Current developments ingeometry).

—— Jan.

2018 Feb. Boston, Ma, UMass Boston, Colloquium.

2018 Jan. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, Colloquium.

2017 Nov. Moscow, Russia (Higher school of economics and Steklov Institute), AG lectures I, II, III, IV,and workshop on birational geometry.

—— Nov. Irvine, Ca, UC Irvine, Algebra Seminar.

—— Nov. Los Angeles, Ca, UCLA, Mirzakhani Memorial.

—— Sep. Statesboro, Georgia, Georgia-Southern University, Colloquium talk.

2017 Jul. Hamburg, Germany, String-Math 2017 (Canceled due to immigration bans!).

2017 Jun. Seul, Korea (KIAS), AG lectures on proof of S-duality conjecture, lectures I, II, III, IV(Canceled due to immigration bans!).

—— May. Moscow, Russia (Higher school of economics and Steklov Institute), AG lectures I, II, III, IV(Canceled due to immigration bans!).

—— Feb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, JDG Conference on Geometry and Topology.

—— Feb. Boston, MA (Boston U.), Geometry and Physics Seminar.

—— Feb. Providence, RI (Brown U.), Geometry/Topology Seminar.

—— Feb. Cambridge, MA (Harvard U.) Differential geometry Seminar.

—— Feb. Cambridge, MA (Harvard CMSA), Mathematical Physics Seminar Trieste, Italy (SISSA),Research collaboration on Nested Hilbert schemes, lectures I, II

—— Jan. Trieste, Italy (SISSA), Research collaboration on Nested Hilbert schemes, lectures I, II

2016 Dec. Utrecht, Netherland (U. Utrecht), GQT colloquium

—— Nov. Hamburg, Germany (U. Hamburg, DESY and ZMP), ZMP colloquium

—— Oct. Aarhus, Denmark (Aarhus U.), Nielsen Retreat

—— Jun. Paris, France, Seminar Darboux, lectures, I,II

—— Apr. Oberwolfach, Germany (MFO), Conference on Moduli Spaces and Modular forms

—— Apr. New York City, New York (Columbia U.), Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Cate-gorification (SGGTC)

—— Apr. College Park, Maryland (U. Maryland), Algebra, Number theory Seminar

—— Feb. Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers U.), Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar

—— Feb. Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard), (SMCA), Mathematical Physics Seminar

—— Jan. Aarhus, Denmark (Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces), Seminar (QGM)

2015 Dec. Seoul, Korea (KIAS), Algebraic Geometry lectures I,II,III,IV

—— Dec. Clear Water bay, Hong Kong (HKUST), Algebraic Geometry lectures I,II,III

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—— Nov. Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— Oct. Luminy, France (CIRM), Conference on Moduli Spaces in Geometry

—— Oct. Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— Oct. Tokyo, Japan (Kavli IPMU), GTM seminar

—— July Salt lake city, Utah (U. Utah), AMS Algebraic Geometry Mega Conference

—— Apr. Oxford, UK (Mathematical Institute), Derived categories and applications symposium

—— Apr. Warwick, UK (Mathematics Institute), Algebraic Geometry seminar

—— Mar. Urbana, Illinois (UIUC), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— Feb. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UPenn), Math-Physics Joint Seminar

—— Feb. Columbus, Ohio (OSU), Representations and Lie theory Seminar

—— Feb. Columbus, Ohio (OSU), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

2013 Oct. New York City, New York (Columbia U.), Gromov-Witten Theory Seminar

—— Sept Urbana, Illinois (UIUC), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— June Trieste, Italy (SISSA), Conference on Hilbert schemes, sheaves and representations

—— May Vienna, Austria (Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics), Con-ference on Birational Geometry and Geometric Invariant Theory

—— May Bonn, Germany (Max Planck Inst.), Seminar on Algebra, Geometry and Physics

—— Apr. Zurich, Switzerland ( Institut fur Mathemathik, U. Zurich), Algebraische Geometrie

—— Feb. Zurich, Switzerland (ETH), Seminar on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli

—— Feb. Tokyo, Japan (Kavli IPMU), Seminar on Derived category, McKay correspondence and Mirrorsymmetry

2012 Dec. Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers U.), Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar

—— Dec. College Park, Maryland (U. Maryland), Seminar on Algebra and number theory

—— Oct. Paris, France (Ecole Normale Superieure), Darboux Seminar

—— Oct. Warwick, UK (Mathematics Institute, U. Warwick), Conference on Homological ProjectiveDuality and Noncommutative Geometry

—— July Bonn, Germany (Hausdorff center for Mathematics), String-Math 2012

2011 Nov. Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard), Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— Nov. Palo Alto, California (Stanford U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar

—— Nov. Berkeley, California (UC Berkeley), Rep. Theory/Geometry/Combinatorics Seminar

—— June Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Upenn), String Math 2011

—— Apr. Warwick, UK (Mathematical Institute, U. Warwick), Algebraic Geometry seminar

—— Apr. London, UK (Imperial College), MAGIC seminar

—— Apr. Oxford, UK (Mathematical Institute), Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry seminar

2009 Nov. Urbana, Illinois (UIUC), Seminar on sheaves of dimension 1

—— Mar. Berkeley, California (UC Berkeley), MSRI graduate student seminar

Organizational activities

2019-2019 The Casa Matematica Oaxaca (CMO), Mexico, Conference on Moduli and Invariants,(Nov 17–22, 2019)

2019-2019 Harvard CMSA, Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Representation theory and Math-ematical Physics, (May 29-June1, 2019)

2016-2019 Harvard CMSA, Mathematical Physics seminar, Special Algebraic Geometry Seminar,CMSA Colloquium.

2017-2017 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Conference on Enumerative geometry andPhysics (Co-organizer jointly with Tom Nevins, Ron Donagi and Albrecht Klemm)

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2016-2017 QGM Aarhus, AaDAG seminar(Co-organizer Jointly with Cristiano Spotti and Thomas Brunn)

2014-2015 Ohio State University, Algebraic Geometry Seminar(Co-organizer Jointly with Davide Fusi)

2012-2013 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Seminar on Algebra, Geometry and Phsyics(Co-organizer Jointly with Yuri Manin)

2011-2012 University of British Columbia, Algebraic Geometry Seminar

2008 , 2010 University of Illinois, Seminar on Sheaves of dimension 1 and Gromov-Witten theory

2008 University of Illinois, Graduate student algebraic geometry seminar

Referee and review experience

Referee for Advances in Mathematics, Geometriae Dedicata, J. Diff. Geom., Communications in Mathematical PhysicsMath. Annalen,Quart. J. Math., Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.Reviewer for American Mathematical Society (Math Reviews), Zentralblatt Math.

Teaching experience

2019 Spring (Main Lecturer, co-lecturing with Dennis Borisov) Derived Algebraic Geometry (Har-vard U.)

2018 Spring (Main Lecturer) Quantum Cohomology and Nakajima varities (Harvard U.)

2017 Spring (Main Lecturer) Algebraic Geometry I (Aarhus U., Video lectures from Harvard)

2017 Spring (Main Lecturer) Special Lecture series on GW/DT theory (Harvard U.)

2016 Spring (Main Lecturer) GW/ DT theories and modularity (MIT)

2014 Fall (Main Lecturer) Engineering Math. B (OSU)

2014 Fall (Main Lecturer) Calculus III (OSU)

2014 Spring (Main Lecturer) Engineering Math. B (OSU)

2013 Fall (Main Lecturer) Engineering Math. A (OSU)

2011 Fall (Main Lecturer) Calculus of one variable (UBC)

2009 Fall (Teaching Assistant) Calculus of one variable (UIUC)

2008 Spring (Teaching Assistant) Calculus of multi variables (UIUC)

2008 Fall (Main Lecturer) Linear Algebra (UIUC)

2007 Spring (Teaching Assistant) Basic Algebra (UIUC)

2007 Fall (Teaching Assistant) Calculus of one variable (UIUC)

2006 Fall (Teaching Assistant) Calculus of one variable (UIUC)

1999 – 2004 (Teaching Assistant) Several engineering undergraduate and graduate courses, (SharifUniversity of Technology)