University of Alberta
Vladyslav Yaskin
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences
Research
Research
My work lies in convex geometry and geometric tomography, with connections to geometric functional analysis and harmonic analysis.
Keywords from my publications
Publications
Book
CBMS
108
108
CBMS Regional Conference Series, 108, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2008, 107 pp.
Preprints
arXiv:2608.17232, August 2026.
arXiv:2607.16924, July 2026.
arXiv:2606.04482, June 2026.
Accepted papers
Israel J. Math., to appear.
Published papers
2026
Rev. Un. Mat. Argentina 69 (2026), no. 1, 93–108.
2025
Adv. Math. 461 (2025), Paper No. 110081, 11 pp.
Pure Appl. Funct. Anal. 10 (2025), no. 5, 1133–1159.
Characterizations of balls and ellipsoids by infinitesimal homothetic conditions
Acta Math. Sci. Ser. B (Engl. Ed.) 45 (2025), no. 1, 280–290.
Discrete Comput. Geom. 73 (2025), no. 4, 1016–1036.
2024
Adv. Math. 441 (2024), Paper No. 109527, 24 pp.
Math. Ann. 390 (2024), no. 1, 1155–1169.
Amer. Math. Monthly 131 (2024), no. 5, 440–444.
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 529 (2024), no. 2, Paper No. 127071, 12 pp.
J. Funct. Anal. 287 (2024), no. 8, Paper No. 110561, 19 pp.
2023
In Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, Adv. Anal. Geom. 9, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023, 1–36.
In Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, Adv. Anal. Geom. 9, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023, 445–468.
2021
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 149 (2021), no. 7, 3089–3104.
Adv. Math. 390 (2021), 28 pp.
2022
Int. Math. Res. Not. 2022, no. 17, 13569–13589.
2020
Int. Math. Res. Not. 13 (2020), 3978–3990.
2019
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 372 (2019), 6755–6769.
2018
Adv. Math. 326 (2018), 521–560.
Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 50 (2018), 745–752.
2017
Adv. Math. 320 (2017), 876–886.
On sections of convex bodies in hyperbolic space
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 445 (2017), 1394–1409.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 3153–3164.
J. London Math. Soc. 95 (2017), 52–72.
Discrete Comput. Geom. 57 (2017), 582–589.
Israel J. Math. 220 (2017), 763–790.
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 369 (2017), 6239–6261.
2015
Thick sections of convex bodies
Adv. Appl. Math. 71 (2015), 174–189.
2014
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 142 (2014), 4355–4363.
2013
In Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics 25 (2013), 327–337.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 141 (2013), no. 8, 2869–2874.
2012
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 395 (2012), 509–514.
J. Differential Geom. 91 (2012), 261–279.
2011
Adv. Math. 226 (2011), 5320–5337.
Math. Ann. 349, no. 3 (2011), 647–655.
A Fourier transform approach to Christoffel's problem
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363 (2011), 6351–6384.
2010
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 371, no. 2 (2010), 447–453.
On Fourier transform techniques in convex geometry
Proceedings of "Geometry in Large, Topology and Applications", Kharkov, Ukraine, 2010, 152–161.
2009
J. London Math. Soc. (2) 80 (2009), 388–404.
2008
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 3281–3291.
Israel J. Math. 168 (2008), 221–238.
Studia Math. 184 (2008), 217–231.
2007
Canad. J. Math. 59, no. 5 (2007), 1029–1049.
2006
J. Geom. Anal. 16 (2006), no. 4, 735–745.
Indiana Univ. Math. J. 55 (2006), no. 3, 1175–1194.
Adv. Math. 203 (2006), no. 2, 537–553.
Israel J. Math. 154 (2006), 191–208.
2000
Totally geodesic submanifolds of surfaces with the revolution group SO(2) × SO(2)
Kharkov University Vestnik 475 (2000), 282–295. (Russian)
1999
Totally geodesic submanifolds of hypersurfaces of revolution in the Euclidean space
Mat. Fiz. Anal. Geom. 6 (1999), no. 1/2, 182–188. (Russian)
Other writings
“A guide to Morgan and Shalen,” with S. Dostoglou and M. Yaskina.
Supervision
Students & Postdocs
Graduate and undergraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
Students
Joseph SaccoMSc
Joint with A. Litvak.
2009–2011
Kasun HiripitiyageMSc
2013–2015
Konstantin TikhomirovPhD
Joint with N. Tomczak-Jaegermann.
2011–2016
Ivan IurchenkoPhD
Joint with A. Litvak.
2012–2017
Matthew StephenPhD
2013–2018
Ning ZhangPhD
2013–2017
Alexandra ShyntarUSRA student
summer 2019
Osama FarooquiUSRA student
summer 2020
Golden Sunsummer student
summer 2021
Wen Rui SunMSc
Joint with B. Vritsiou.
2020–2022
Wen Rui SunPhD
Joint with B. Vritsiou.
2022–present
Brayden LetwinUSRA student
summer 2023 and summer 2024
Jasen Huang
USRA student
Joint with B. Vritsiou.
summer 2025 and summer 2026
Yu (Mike) HuangMSc student
2024–present
Rubin ZhangVisiting PhD student
2026–2027
Postdocs
Jaegil Kim
2013–2017
Sergii Myroshnychenko
Joint with A. Litvak and N. Tomczak-Jaegermann.
2019–2021
Kateryna Tatarko
Joint with A. Litvak and B. Vritsiou.
2020–2021
Sudan Xing
Joint with A. Litvak and B. Vritsiou.
2020–2022
Chase Reuter
Joint with B. Vritsiou.
2024–2026
Academic activity
Talks
Invited lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, and special sessions.
2026
The Bremen Town Mathematicians (in Convexity), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, September 7–11, 2026.
Seminar at Tongji University, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 4, 2026.
Conference on Brunn–Minkowski Theories, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 1–5, 2026.
AMS Meeting, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, April 18–19, 2026.
2025
Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Miami, FL, July 21–25, 2025.
Discrete, Convex and Combinatorial Geometry Fest, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, July 14–18, 2025.
Workshop on Inequalities and Log-Concavity, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, June 23–27, 2025.
Seminar of the Kharkiv Mathematical Society, online, April 22, 2025.
Penn State Online Geometry Seminar, online, April 16, 2025.
2024
Workshop on Convex Geometry and its Applications, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 16–20, 2024.
Workshop on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, December 9–13, 2024.
Kharkiv University Geometry Seminar, online, December 3, 2024.
Kharkiv University Geometry Seminar, online, November 19, 2024.
Kharkiv University Geometry Seminar, online, November 12, 2024.
Open Lectures for PhD Students in Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, October 7–10, 2024.
AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, September 14–15, 2024.
XXIII Lluís Santaló School “Convex Geometry, Differential Geometry and Harmonic Analysis: Building Synergies”, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain, July 29–August 2, 2024.
Discrete Geometry Days, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, July 2–5, 2024.
Session on Geometric Analysis and Inverse Problems, Alberta Mathematics Dialogue, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 3–4, 2024.
Workshop on High Dimensional Phenomena: Geometric and Probabilistic Aspects, Hausdorff Institute, Bonn, Germany, March 11–15, 2024.
2023
Workshop on Interplay between Geometric Analysis and Discrete Geometry (online), BIRS, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 25–30, 2023.
Workshop on Geometric Inequalities, Convexity and Probability, BIRS, Granada, Spain, June 11–16, 2023.
Colloquium, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, April 20, 2023.
2022
Measure Theory Seminar, Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 21, 2022.
Seminar, ICERM (Brown University), Providence, RI, October 28, 2022.
2021
Workshop on Interaction Between Partial Differential Equations and Convex Geometry (Online), BIRS, Hangzhou, China, October 17–22, 2021.
Seminar (online), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, March 29, 2021.
Workshop: High dimensional measures: geometric and probabilistic aspects (online), Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, March 22–26, 2021.
2020
Mizzou Analysis seminar (online), University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, September 22, 2020.
2019
Analysis in Missouri: a Midwestern symposium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, September 5–8, 2019.
Discrete Geometry Days 2, Budapest, Hungary, July 9–12, 2019.
Conference on Geometry, Differential Equations and Analysis, in memory of A. V. Pogorelov, Kharkiv, Ukraine, June 17–21, 2019.
Analysis and Probability Seminar, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, April 23, 2019.
Analysis Seminar, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, February 19, 2019.
2018
Workshop on Convex Geometry and its Applications, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 9–15, 2018.
ICM Satellite Conference "Asymptotic and Affine Geometric Analysis", Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 26–31, 2018.
Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia, May 24, 2018.
Workshop on Emerging Trends in Geometric Functional Analysis, BIRS, Banff, March 25–30, 2018.
2017
GFA Main Seminar, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, August 28, 2017.
Conference on Convex, Discrete and Integral Geometry, Banach Center, Będlewo, Poland, June 4–9, 2017.
Alberta Mathematics Dialogue, MacEwan University, Edmonton, May 4–5, 2017.
Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, April 25, 2017.
Colloquium, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, March 2, 2017.
2016
Conference on Analytic Aspects of Convexity, INdAM, Rome, Italy, October 10–14, 2016.
Conference on Convex and Discrete Geometry, Vienna Technical University, Vienna, Austria, July 4–8, 2016.
Montreal Analysis Seminar, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, June 2, 2016.
Seminar (three lectures), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 30, May 31, June 1, 2016.
Analysis and Geometry Seminar, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, April 19, 2016.
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Convexity and Harmonic Analysis, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, April 16–17, 2016.
2015
Conference on Analytic and Probabilistic Techniques in Modern Convex Geometry in Honor of Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, November 7–9, 2015.
Seminar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, May 29, 2015.
Colloquium, Kent State University, OH, April 2, 2015.
Guest lecture, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, March 23, 2015.
Seminar (Privatissimum), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, March 20, 2015.
Workshop on Discrete Geometry and Symmetry, BIRS, Banff, February 8–13, 2015.
2014
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on High Dimensional Convexity and Applications, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, October 25–26, 2014.
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, March 29–30, 2014.
2013
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 18–20, 2013.
International conference on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis II, Euler International Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 20–24, 2013.
Analysis Seminar, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, April 8, 2013.
Workshop on Interplay of convex geometry and Banach space theory, BIRS, Banff, March 10–15, 2013.
2012
Workshop on Convex Geometry and its Applications, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 9–15, 2012.
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, University of Akron, OH, October 20–21, 2012.
Workshop on Convexity and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), Montreal, QC, April 16–20, 2012.
2011
Fifth International Workshop on Convex Geometry – Analytic Aspects, Cortona, Italy, June 12–18, 2011.
2010
Workshop on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Convexity, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, September 13–17, 2010.
Conference on Perspectives in High Dimensions, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, August 2–6, 2010.
International conference on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Euler International Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30–July 4, 2010.
Workshop on Convex and Stochastic Geometry, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, May 30–June 4, 2010.
Workshop on Volume Inequalities, BIRS, Banff, AB, March 28–April 2, 2010.
2009
Joint meeting of KMS and AMS, Seoul, Korea, December 16–20, 2009.
Workshop on Convex Geometry and its Applications, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 29–December 4, 2009.
BIRS Northwest Functional Analysis Seminar, BIRS, Banff, AB, October 16–18, 2009.
International conference "Geometry in large, Topology and Applications" dedicated to the 90th birthday of A. V. Pogorelov, Kharkov, Ukraine, June 22–27, 2009.
Workshop on Affine Convex Geometric Analysis, BIRS, Banff, AB, January 11–16, 2009.
2008
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry and Asymptotic Analysis, Vancouver, BC, October 4–5, 2008.
Fourth annual conference of the EU network "Phenomena in High Dimensions", Seville, Spain, June 23–27, 2008.
Colloquium, Polytechnic University of New York, April 10, 2008.
Conference on Classical Convex Geometry, University of Missouri-Columbia, March 21–23, 2008.
Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 4, 2008.
2007
Third annual conference of the EU network "Phenomena in High Dimensions", Samos, Greece, June 25–29, 2007.
Analysis seminar, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France, June 19, 2007.
Fourth International Workshop on Convex Geometry – Analytic Aspects, Cortona, Italy, June 3–9, 2007.
Special Analysis Seminar, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, April 17, 2007.
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Fourier Analysis and Convexity, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 14–15, 2007.
Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms, Convex Geometry, and Geometric Analysis, New Orleans, LA, January 5–8, 2007.
Workshop on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, January 3–4, 2007.
2006
Probabilistic and Combinatorial Approach in Analysis, CBMS/NSF Regional Research Conference in Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, August 6–12, 2006.
Banach spaces and their applications in Analysis, conference in honor of Nigel Kalton’s 60th birthday, Miami University, Oxford, OH, May 22–27, 2006.
2006 Midwest Geometry Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, May 5–7, 2006.
AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Geometry of Banach Spaces and Connections with Other Areas, Miami, FL, April 1–2, 2006.
Colloquium, University of Akron, Akron, OH, March 17, 2006.
Colloquium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, February 13, 2006.
Colloquium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, January 27, 2006.
Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, January 26, 2006.
Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Convex and Discrete Geometry, San Antonio, TX, January 12–15, 2006.
2005
Conference on Convex Geometry and High Dimensional Phenomena, Vienna, Austria, July 20–27, 2005.
Analysis seminar, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, June 16, 2005.
Educational Workshop on Geometric Inequalities, Florence, Italy, May 16–20, 2005.
Analysis seminar, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, February 23, 2005.
2004
Analysis seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia, October 5, 2004.
SUMIRFAS, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, August 6–8, 2004.
Geometry seminar, Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine, July 7, 2004.
First Karazin Scientific Readings, Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine, June 14–16, 2004.
2000
Geometry and Nonlinearity Seminar, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, November 2000.
1999
3rd International Conference on Geometry "in the large", Cherkassy, Ukraine, June 1999.
1997–1999
Geometry Seminar, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1997–1999.
Organizing
Conferences & Events Organized
Conferences, workshops, schools, special sessions, and collaborative research programs organized.
Conferences organized
2026
BIRS workshop, Banff · April 26–May 1, 2026
2025
Special Session: Harmonic Analysis in Geometric Tomography
Mathematical Congress of the Americas, University of Miami · July 21–25, 2025
2024
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine · July 14–21, 2024
2023
BIRS workshop, Banff · November 19–24, 2023
2022
ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI · September 26–30, 2022
2020
BIRS workshop, Banff · February 9–14, 2020
2019
2019 CMS Summer Meeting, University of Regina · June 7–10, 2019
2019
Special Session on Analytic and Probabilistic Methods in Convex Geometry
AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu · March 22–24, 2019
2017
Recent Advances in Discrete and Analytic Aspects of Convexity
BIRS workshop, Banff · May 21–26, 2017
2016
2016 CMS Summer Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton · June 24–27, 2016
2016
University of Alberta, Edmonton · May 16–20, 2016
2015
The Sixth Northwest Functional Analysis Seminar
BIRS workshop, Banff · April 10–12, 2015
2014
BIRS workshop, Banff · March 9–14, 2014
2013
American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA · August 5–9, 2013
2011
Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Edmonton · June 3–5, 2011
2011
Harmonic Analysis in Convex Geometry
BIRS workshop, Banff · May 15–20, 2011
2010
American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA · August 9–13, 2010
Research in Teams / Pairs
2025–present
AIM SQuaRE
American Institute of Mathematics, Pasadena · May 18–23, 2025; June 8–12, 2026
2024
Research in Teams — Centers of mass of convex bodies
BIRS, Banff · August 18–25, 2024
2022
Research in Teams — Algebraically Integrable Domains
BIRS, Banff · July 24–31, 2022
2015
Research in Teams — Uniqueness Results in Geometric Tomography
BIRS, Banff · August 16–23, 2015
2015
Research in Pairs — Tomographic results in convex geometry
Oberwolfach, Germany · May 17–30, 2015
Curriculum vitae
CV
Education, academic positions, grants, and awards.
Education
2006
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Missouri–Columbia, USA
Advisor: Alexander Koldobsky
1997
M.S. in Mathematics (Diploma with Honors), Kharkiv State University, Ukraine
Advisor: Yu. A. Aminov
Academic positions
2019–present
Professor, University of Alberta
2012–2019
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
2008–2012
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
2006–2008
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, USA
May–Aug 2007
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Université de Marne-la-Vallée (Paris-Est), France
2001–2006
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri–Columbia, USA
2000–2001
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Kharkiv State University, Ukraine
Editorial service
2022–present
Associate Editor, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
Grants & Awards
2026–2029
PIMS Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Grant · Co-PI
2024–2029
NSERC Discovery Grant
2019–2024
NSERC Discovery Grant
2014–2019
NSERC Discovery Grant
2013–2014
Instructor of Distinction Honor Roll
2012
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Teaching Award, University of Alberta
2009–2014
NSERC Discovery Grant
2008
University of Alberta start-up grant
2007
European Network PHD, FP6 Marie Curie Actions, RTN, Contract MCRN-511953
2007
MU Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Missouri-Columbia
2003
Mathematics Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia