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

March 2026Oberseminar, MPIM, Bonn.
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