Address

Department of Mathematics
14 MacLean Hall (MLH)
2 West Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52242

E-mail address

michail-savvas [AT] uiowa.edu

I am an Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of the University of Iowa.
Previously, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, San Diego.

I completed my Ph.D. at the Mathematics Department of Stanford University in 2018 under the guidance of Professor Jun Li. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2012.

My main research interests span enumerative geometry, moduli theory, Donaldson-Thomas theory, derived algebraic & differential geometry, derived categories & stability conditions, logarithmic geometry, and artificial intelligence.

Here are my Curriculum Vitae, recordings of a seminar talk and colloquium talk and a research brief for a general audience.

Papers

  • Good Moduli Spaces in Derived Algebraic Geometry, with E. Ahlqvist, J. Hekking and M. Pernice. [arXiv]
  • Cosection Localization for D-Manifolds and (-2)-Shifted Symplectic Derived Schemes, Revisited. Mathematische Zeitschrift (to appear). [arXiv]
  • Stabilizer Reduction for Derived Stacks and Applications to Sheaf-Theoretic Invariants, with J. Hekking and D. Rydh. [arXiv]
  • Virtual Riemann-Roch Theorems for Almost Perfect Obstruction Theories. manuscripta mathematica 173, 463–498 (2024). [Journal] [arXiv]
  • The d-critical structure on the Quot scheme of points of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold, with A. Ricolfi. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 415, No. 8, 1–45 (2024). [Journal] [arXiv]
  • Cosection Localization and Vanishing for Virtual Fundamental Classes of D-Manifolds. Advances in Mathematics, Volume 398, 2022, 108232. [Journal] [arXiv]
  • Localizing Virtual Structure Sheaves for Almost Perfect Obstruction Theories, with Y.-H. Kiem. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Volume 8, 2020, e61. [Journal] [arXiv]
  • Intrinsic Stabilizer Reduction and Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 22(4), 1987-2025. [Journal] [arXiv]
  • K-Theoretic Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants, with Y.-H. Kiem. International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN), 2022, pp. 2123-2158. [Journal] [arXiv]
  • Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants via Kirwan Blowups, with Y.-H. Kiem and J. Li. Journal of Differential Geometry, 127 (3) 1149 - 1205, July 2024. [Journal] [arXiv]
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Categories for Compositional Reinforcement Learning, with G. Bakirtzis, S. Chinchali, U. Topcu and R. Zhao. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024 (to appear).
  • Categorical Semantics of Compositional Reinforcement Learning, with G. Bakirtzis and U. Topcu. Journal of Machine Learning Research (to appear). [arXiv]
  • Shutout Games on Graphs, with A. Cioba. Mathematika, volume 61 (2015), issue 03, pp. 523-530. [Journal] [PDF]

Theses