Кириченко Валентина Алексеевна

Education and Degrees

2019

Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University

2004

PhD in Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Number Theory
University of Toronto
Thesis Title: A Gauss-Bonnet theorem, Chern classes and an adjunction formula for reductive groups

2004

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Number Theory

2001

Degree
Independent University of Moscow

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Professional Interests

algebraic groups Spherical varieties theory of Newton polytopes Schubert calculus algebraic cobordism

Algebraic geometry (algebraic groups, spherical varieties, theory of Newton polytopes, Schubert calculus, algebraic cobordism)

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2021–2023, 2019
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2013)

Courses (2025/2026)

Algebra (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Mathematics field of study Mathematics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Algebra (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Mathematics field of study Mathematics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

2021
IMPANGA20 (Bedlewo). Presentation: Convex geometric push-pull operators

2019
Representation theory of Lie groups, mathematical physics, and combinatorics (Реймс). Presentation: Newton-Okounkov convex bodies and representation theory

2017
Beyond Toric Geometry (Оаксака). Presentation: Symplectic Gelfand-Zetlin polytopes and Schubert calculus
Interactions with Lattice Polytopes (Магдебург). Presentation: Interactions of representation theory with lattice polytopes
Symmetric Spaces and their Generalisations III (Тренто). Presentation: Newton-Okounkov polytopes and Schubert calculus
Transformation groups 2017 (Москва). Presentation: Schubert calculus on Newton-Okounkov polytopes

2016
Nilpotent Orbits and Representation Theory (Пиза). Presentation: Newton-Okounkov polytopes of flag varieties
Workshop on Convexity in Algebraic Geometry (Торонто). Presentation: Newton-Okounkov polytopes of Bott-Samelson varieties

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

2019
V. Kiritchenko Геометрия сферических многообразий и многогранники Ньютона-Окунькова

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
E. Presnova Gelfand–Zetlin polytopes and Schubert calculus
2
P. Romanova Monodromy of critical points of general polynomials
3
V. Pokidkin Discriminants of Polynomial Systems

Personal webpage

http://www.mccme.ru/~valya

Selected presentations

The many faces of polytopes, popularizing lecture from the cycle "Mathematics: difficult made easy" (in Russian), May 2013

The other presentations can be found here

Grants

2013	President of the RF grant MK-983.2013.1, ''Polytopes, algebraic torus actions and automorphism groups''
2010	RFBR grant 10-01-00540-a "Cohomology of spherical varieties and Newton polytopes"

Mathematical awards

2010-2012	Dynasty Foundation Award, http://www.mccme.ru/dfc/
2001-2004	Connaught Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto
1998-1999	Mayor of Moscow Undergraduate Scholarship

Conference talks

2014	Seoul ICM 2014 Satellite Conference on Topology of Torus Actions and Applications to Geometry and Combinatorics, Daejeon, Korea
	Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Okounkov bodies and applications, Oberwolfach, Germany
	BIRS workshop on Okounkov Bodies and Representation Theory, Banff, Canada
2013	Christmas mathematical meetings of Dynasty foundation, Moscow, Russia
2012	Banff workshop on Lie algebras, torsors and cohomological invariants, Banff, Canada
	The 5th MSJ-SI Schubert calculus, Osaka, Japan
	Oberwolfach workshop on toric geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany
2011	Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Newton-Okounkov bodies, Oberwolfach, Germany
	International Conference "IITP RAS 50 years", Moscow
2010	ICM2010 Satellite conference on Complex Geometry, Group actions and Moduli spaces, Hyderabad, India
	Oberwolfach workshop on algebraic groups, Oberwolfach, Germany
2009	Oberwolfach workshop on toric geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany
2007	International Conference "Transformation groups", Moscow
	Banff workshop on Group Embeddings: Geometry and Representation Theory, Banff, Canada

Conferences organized

Algebra and Geometry , International Conference dedicated to the 65-th anniversary of Askold G. Khovanskii, June 4 - 9, 2012, Moscow, Russia

Professional membership

Moscow Mathematical socielty

Valentina Kiritchenko