Ivan Yakovlev

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

I have defended my PhD thesis entitled "Metric ribbon graphs" in July 2024 at LaBRI in Bordeaux, where my supervisor was Vincent Delecroix. I was a member of the Combinatorics and Interactions team.

Before that I obtained my Master's degree from École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne Université in Paris.

E-mail: surname (at) mpim-bonn.mpg.de

You can find my CV here.

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Research interests

Enumerative geometry of hyperbolic / translation / square-tiled surfaces, moduli spaces of curves and differentials, Masur--Veech volumes, intersection theory, Hurwitz numbers.

Particular interest in related combinatorial structures: ribbon graphs (combinatorial maps), cellular decompositions of moduli spaces, polytopes, hyperplane arrangements, curve complexes, mapping class groups. I am also interested in algorithmic problems on surfaces and I enjoy experimenting in SageMath.

Publications and preprints

PhD thesis


Upcoming and recent talks

February 2026Geometry seminar, MPI MiS, Leipzig.
October 2025Gravity seminar, IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
July 2025Low-dimensional topology seminar, MPIM, Bonn.
March 2025Journées ALEA, CIRM, Marseille. (slides)

Miscellaneous