Ian Agol

Education:

BS Mathematics, Caltech, 1992

Ph.D. Mathematics, UC San Diego, 1998. Advisor Michael Hartley Freedman

Year Appointed:  2006

Selected Publications:

1. Agol, Ian(1-CA); Liu, Yi(1-CA) Presentation length and Simon's conjecture. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (2012), no. 1, 151–187. [MR] [GS?]
2. Agol, Ian, The virtual Haken conjecture, with an appendix by Agol, Daniel Groves, and Jason Manning. Doc. Math. 18 (2013), 1045–1087. [MR] [GS?]
3. Agol, Ian(1-CA-NDM); Groves, Daniel(1-ILCC-MS); Manning, Jason Fox(1-CRNL) An alternate proof of Wise's malnormal special quotient theorem. (English summary) Forum Math. Pi 4 (2016), e1, 54 pp. [MR] [GS?]
4. Agol, Ian (2008). Criteria for virtual fibering. J. Topol. 1 No.2, 269-284. [MR] [GS?]
5. Agol, Ian and Storm, Peter A. and Thurston, William P. (2007). Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 No.4, 1053-1077 (electronic). With an appendix by Nathan Dunfield. [MR] [GS?]

Relevant Links:

• Board of Trustees SLMath (formerly MSRI)
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Mathematical Society
• Associate Editor, Annals of Mathematics
• Associate Editor, Communications of the American Mathematical society
• Editor, Geometry, and Topology
• Former editor Forum of Mathematics, ∑
• 2019-2021: American Mathematical Society Editorial Boards Committee
• James H. Simons Chair Mathematics 2016-2021
• Simons Investigator, 2015-2025

• Chair topology panel ICM 2022 

• Articles on the arxiv:
  • https://arxiv.org/a/agol_i_1.html
  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=prNMjBwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
• Popular articles on Ian Agol's work: 
  • All's well that ends well
  • Getting into Shapes
  • Breakthrough Prize 2015
  • How complex is a knot?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Agol
  • Mastodon
  • http://mathoverflow.net/users/1345/ian-agol
  • Intersections of curves on the torus
• Videos:
  • Minerva lecture 1, Princeton, October 2012
  • Minerva lecture 2
  • Minerva lecture 3
  • 3-manifold groups, IAS, October 2015
  • RFRS for congruence subgroups, ICTP, June 2016
  • The virtual fibering conjecture, ICTP, June 2016
  • No Boundaries conference in honor of Benson Farb, U of C, October 2017
  • Seeking a computer-free proof of the 4-color problem (video from the 2018 Breakthrough Prize Symposium)
  • Ribbon concordance of knots
• Ian Agol Laboratory ICMAT
• Public dropbox folder with old web pages

Extended version of submission to Proceedings of the 2014 ICM