Olya Mandelshtam

Contact

MC 6014
University of Waterloo
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
Canada

Email: omandels [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca

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Hello! I am an Assistant Professor in the Combinatorics and Optimization department at the University of Waterloo.

I received my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2016 under the guidance of Lauren Williams. After a year as a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA, I was a Tamarkin Assistant Professor and National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Brown for a few years. I joined the University of Waterloo in 2021.

My research interests are in the field of algebraic combinatorics, particularly in symmetric and quasisymmetric functions, motivated by connections to probability and interacting particle systems. Here is a link to my research papers.

Current graduate students

• Kartik Singh
• Jerónimo Valencia Porras
• Guilherme Zeus Dantas e Moura
• Harper Niergarth

Past graduate students

• William Chan

Recent and upcoming activities

• I attend the Combinatorics seminar at Waterloo, which is being organized by Karen Yeats.
• ICERM workshop on Category Theory, Combinatorics, and Machine Learning, Sep 15-19, 2025
• International Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications (ICECA) Virtual, August 25-27, 2025>
• Perfectly matched perspectives on statistical mechanics, combinatorics and geometry, CIRM, Luminy, France, 16-20 June 2025
• qt-Combinatorics in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, Cortona, Italy, 9-13 June 2025
• Collaborative Workshop in Algebraic Combinatorics, IAS, Princeton, June 2-6 2025
• co-organizing minisymposium on "Algebraic Combinatorics" at CanaDAM, Ottawa, May 20-23 2025
• CombinaTexas, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 12-13 2025
• Discrete Integrable Systems: Difference Equations, Cluster Algebras, and Probabilistic Models, ICTS, Bangalore, India, Oct 21-Nov 1, 2024
• Integrability and Algebraic Combinatorics IPAM workshop, April 15 - 19, 2024
• co-organizing Banff workshop Community in Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, January 7-12, 2024
• The Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: October 2-6, 2023
• Asymptotic Limits of Discrete Random Structures, ICERM, Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2023
• FPSAC at UC Davis, California, July 17-21, 2023
• Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA March 18-19, 2023

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