Valentin Buciumas
Assistant Professor
POSTECH, Department of Mathematics
77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Korea 790-784
Office 221 Mathematical Science Building
Email: buciumas at postech dot ac dot kr
Personal email: valentin dot buciumas at gmail dot com
About me
I am an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at POSTECH in Pohang, South Korea. I received my PhD in 2016 from Stanford University where I was a student of Daniel Bump. Between 2016 and 2023 I was a postdoc at the KdV Institute / University of Amsterdam (with Jasper Stokman, 2021-2023), University of Alberta (with Manish Patnaik, 2020-2021), University of Queensland (with Masoud Kamgarpour, 2018-2020), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with David Kazhdan, 2017-2018) and the Max Planck Institute in Bonn (2016-2017).
Research
My interest is in representation theory (broadly interpreted to include connections with mathematical physics, number theory, algebraic combinatorics and geometry).
I am specifically interested in the representation theory of $p$-adic groups and their generalizations (like metaplectic groups or loop groups), their Hecke algebras and connections to quantum theory (quantum groups, quantum symmetric pairs, categorification, Kazhdan-Lusztig combinatorics etc.).
I also have a long standing interest in solvable lattice models and special functions appearing in algebraic combinatorics, representation theory and geometry.
For more information, see my publication list.
Recently, I became interested in the Gaiotto conjectures and relative Langlands dualities.
If you feel like you have common interests, feel free to get in touch.
News
See events in representation theory at POSTECH.
Together with Sungmun Cho and Qirui Li, we organized a lecture series on relative Langlands at POSTECH.