Curriculum Vitae

Contact Email: artan (dot) sheshmani (at) gmail (dot) com

                                   artan (at) mit (dot) edu

BIMSA Algebraic Geometry group: https://www.bimsa.cn/groups/algebraic-geometry.html

My BIMSA website: https://www.bimsa.cn/detail/artansheshmani.html 

Research interests

Algebraic Geometry, Enumerative Geometry (Gromov-Witten theory, Donaldson-Thomas theory), Mirror Symmetry, Derived Algebraic Geometry, Mathematics of String theory, Mathematical Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Erdős number = 3 Einstein number = 4

Work Experience

2023---Professor: Beijing Institiute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), BIMSA

2016---2023 Senior personnel: Harvard University CMSA at Simons Collaboration Program in Homological Mirror Symmetry.

2016---2022 Associate Professor of Mathematics (with tenure): Institut for Matematik, Aarhus Universitet/ formerly Center for Quantum Geometry Moduli Spaces.

2015---2016 Visiting Assistant Professor (8 months), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA

2015---2016 Adjunct Assistant Professor (4 months-Joint with Ohio state U.), Kavli IPMU

2013---2016 Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

2012---2013 Postdoctoral 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

Other Affiliations

2024---Team leader (PI in Algebraic Geometry), BIMSA/HSE International Academic Cooperation 

2021---Affiliate Faculty Member: IAIFI, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

2017---International affiliate member: International laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms, Higher school of economics, HSE

Visiting Positions

2020-2022    Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Physics Department

2020---2023 Visiting Associate Professor, IMSA, University of Miami (Contributing remotely to the program: Hodge Theory and its Applications)

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 Schrödinger 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

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

Education

2011 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 

(Advisors: Sheldon Katz and Tom Nevins)

2008 M.Sc. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

2003 B.Sc. Mechanical/Civil Engineering (double major), Sharif University of Technology, IRAN

1999 Diploma Mathematics and Physics, National Organization of Development of Exceptional Talents

(NODET), Tabriz, IRAN,

Grants

2024---2029  BIMSA/HSE International Cooperation Agreement in Algebraic Geometry and Physics, Co- PI (with Nicolai Reshetikhin and Valery Gritsenko), 300K (24 Million Rubles) Further info. 

2024---2027 NSFC RFIS II grant, Single PI, 110K. 

2024---2026 Beijing grant, Single PI, 30K. 

2021---2022 NSF SBRI grant #2109928, Single PI, 256K. 

2020---2024 European research leader grant, IRFD. Single PI, $1M (together with additional $400k funding 

co-financed jointly by Harvard University and Aarhus University).

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

2017 NSF grant #1726228, 28K, Co-PI (with Tom Nevins, Albrecht Klemm and Ron Donagi), Conference on 

Enumerative Geometry, Mirror Symmetry, and Physics

2017 Senior personnel, Supplement for NSF #1306313 (PI: Shing-Tung Yau) , 200K, Geometric Structures 

in Field and String Theory

Postdoctoral Researchers Under My Mentorship

2024---current Benjamin Zhou (Postdoc at YMSC-- Co-mentoring together with Shing-Tung Yau)

2024---current Yang He (Postdoc at BIMSA-- Co-mentoring together with Caucher Birkar)

2024---current Angel Toledo (Postdoc at BIMSA)

2024---2025 Xiaopeng Xia (Postdoc at BIMSA -- Co-mentoring together with William Donovan)

2024---2025 Aimeric Malter (Postdoc at BIMSA -- Co-mentoring together with William Donovan)

2023---2025 Yuxiang Liu (Postdoc at BIMSA -- Co-mentoring together with Shing-Tung Yau)

2023---2025 Jacob Kryczka (Postdoc at BIMSA)

2020---2021 Cody Long (Postdoc at Harvard CMSA and Harvard Physics department)-Co-supervising with Matthew Reece

2019---2021 Michael Mcbreen (Postdoc at Harvard CMSA and center for QGM)-Now Assist. Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong

2018---2020 Dennis Borisov (Postdoc at Harvard CMSA and center for QGM)-Now Assist. Professor at U. Windsor

2018---2021 Enno Kessler (Postdoc at Harvard CMSA), Co-supervising with Shing-Tung Yau

2020---2023 Raeez Lograt (PhD student at Perimeter Institute), Co-supervising with Kevin Costello

Scientific/Academic Honors and Awards

2025---Invited speaker, International Congress of Basic Science, China

2024---Yeuk-Lam Best Paper Award

2024---Invited speaker, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians Link

2024---Invited speaker, International Congress of Basic Science, China Link

2024---Invited Speaker International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Shanghai.

2023---Ruolin Best Paper Award Link

2017---current Associate member, International laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic

Forms, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation

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

2009 , 2010 James D. Hogan and university of Illinois Fellowships

2010 University of Illinois Dissertation Completion Fellowship

2009 David G. Bourgin Fellowship

2009 Member of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society

2007 , 2009 R.E.G.S 2 Fellowship

2006 , 2008 Department of Mathematics internal Fellowship

2006---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 exam

2003 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. Permission to double major in M.E. and C.E.

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

Selected Invited Talks

2025

---Aug. Sunny Beac, Bulgaria, Conference on Complex and Symplectic Geometry.

---Aug. Sofia, Bulgaria, Symbols, Atoms and Applications.

---Jul. Beijing, China,  International Congress of Basic Science.

---Jun. Beijing, China, String-Math 2025.

---Jan. Miami, US, Algebraic Geometry Conference (Maxim Kontsevich's 60th birthday Conference).

---Jan. Shanghai, China, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians.

2024

---Dec. Sanya, China, Conference in Algebraic Geometry.

---Dec. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University CMSA AG seminar.

---Nov. Moscow, HSE Distinguished Lecture series in Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics.

---Nov. Moscow, HSE/BIMSA Conference in Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics.

---Aug. Sunny beach, Bulgaria, Conference on geometry and physics.

---Jul. Beijing, China, International Congress of Basic Science.

---Jan. Shanghai, China, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians.

---Jan. Seoul, Korea, Conference on Mirror Symmetry and Related Topics.

---Jan. Shanghai, China, International Congress of Chinese Mathemamaticisns 2023.

2023

---Dec. Sanya, China, Workshop in Algebraic Geometry.

---Oct. Tehran, Iran (on Zoom), Tarbiat Modarres University, Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

---Oct. Beijing, China, BIMSA/ Tisnghua Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

---Sept. Beijing, China, Tsinghua Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

---Sept. Trieste, Italy, ICTP, Mathematics and High Energy Physics Seminar.

---July. Beijing, China, International Congress of Basic Science.

---May. Trieste, Italy, ICTP, Mathematics and High Energy Physics Seminar.

2022 

---Oct. Hong Kong, HKUST, Colloquium.

---Sep. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Departmental Colloquium.

---Aug. Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Colloquium.

---Aug. Sofia, Bulgaria, ICMS, Conference on Geometry and Physics.

---Mar. Miami, Florida, HMS Conference.

2021

---Sep. Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Colloquium.

---May. Manhattan, New York, Yeshiva University, Colloquium.

2019 

---Oct. Mexico, CMO (Oxaca), Conference on Moduli and Invariants.

---Oct. Trieste, Italy, (ICTP), Workshop on Gauge theory and dierential 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 mirror symmetry 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 in geometry).

---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.

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

---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.) Dierential geometry Seminar.

---Feb. Cambridge, MA (Harvard CMSA), Mathematical Physics Seminar Trieste, Italy (SISSA), 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 Categorication (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

---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

1. ---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), Conference 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 Mirror symmetry

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 Projective Duality and Noncommutative Geometry

---July Bonn, Germany (Hausdor 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

2024-2024 BIMSA Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Co-organizer Jointly with Beihui Yuan and Nanjun Yang and Caucher Birkar).

2023-2023 Workshop on ALgebraic Geometry, Sanya, China (Co-organizer Jointly with Caucher Birkar), December 22, 2023.

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 Mathematical 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 and Physics (Co-organizer jointly with Tom Nevins, Ron Donagi and Albrecht Klemm)

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 Semina

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

Editor for Algebraic Geometry and Physics Journal Webpage 

Editor for Journal of Iranian Mathematical Society Journal Webpage

Referee for: Advances in Mathematics, Geometriae Dedicata, J. Di. Geom., Math. Annalen, Quart. J. Math., Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

Reviewer for: American Mathematical Society (Math Reviews), Zentralblatt Math.

Teaching Experience

2024 Spring Counting Sheaves and Objects in Derived Category (BIMSA)

2023 Fall Counting Sheaves and Objects in Derived Category (BIMSA)

2022 Fall Derived Algebraic / Differential Geometry (BIMSA)

2021 Spring Gromov-Witten/ Donaldson-Thomas theory and Birational/ Symplectic invariants for algebraic surfaces--(BIMSA)

2019 Spring (Main Lecturer) Derived Algebraic Geometry lecture series (Harvard University CMSA)

2017 Fall (Main Lecturer) Algebraic Topology I (Aarhus University)

2017 Spring (Main Lecturer) Qunatum Cohomology lecture series (Harvard University CMSA)

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 University CMSA)

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, (Sharif

University of Technology)