Alexander Fish

Van Vleck Assistant Professor

Contact

Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin,
480 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA

afish(you know what)math.wisc.edu

Teaching website

This semester I teach courses Math 275 and Math 431.

Research interests

Ergodic theory, additive combinatorics, convex geometry.

Biography

My supervisor was Hillel Furstenberg. My thesis "Ramsey properties of subsets of N" was defended in 2007, at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Afterwards, for three years I have been Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at Ohio State University.

My full CV.

Preprints

1.

Sharp Sumset Inequalities for Bohr sets
with M. Bjorklund. In preparation.

2.

Polynomial largeness of sumsets and totally ergodic sets

Publications

1.

Solvability of linear equations within weak mixing sets
To appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics.

2.

Sumset Phenomenon in Countable Amenable Groups
with M. Beiglboeck and V.Bergelson. To appear in Advances of Mathematics.

3.

Equidistribution of dilations of polynomial curves in nilmanifolds
with M. Bjorklund. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2111-2123.

4.

Continuous Measures on Homogeneous Spaces
with M. Bjorklund. To appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier.

5.

Solvability of Rado systems in D-sets
with M. Beiglböck, V. Bergelson and T. Downarowicz. Topology Appl. 156 (2009), no. 16, 2565--2571

6.

Rigidity of measures invariant under the action of a multiplicative semigroup of polynomial growth on T
with M. Einsiedler. To appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.

7.

Liouville Random functions and normal sets
Acta Arith. 120 (2005), no. 2, 191--196.