Associate Professor

Program: Mathematics

Email: yv2487@mun.ca

Phone: 709-637-7165

Office: AS 3019

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Credentials

BSc (1994) & MSc (1996) in Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
PhD in Mathematics (2001), University of Notre Dame, USA

 

Research interests

model theory (a branch of mathematical logic)

 

Teaching

In the last 5 years: MATH 2000, 2050, 2051, 3000, 3202, 3320, 3370, 4305, 4950, 495A/B, STAT 2500, 2550

Previously also taught MATH 1050/1051 (inactive courses), 1090, 1000, 1001, 3260 (now 2260), SC4000

 

Representative scholarly contributions 

• Alexander Berenstein, Christian D’ Elbee, Evgueni Vassiliev, Vector spaces with dense-codense generic submodule, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Volume 175,Issue 7, July 2024, 103442

• Alexander Berenstein, Evgueni Vassiliev, Definable groups in dense pairs of geometric structures, Archive for Mathematical Logic, vol. 61 (2022), 234-372. 

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Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision

Honours project supervision (MATH 495 A/B):

Lucas Dawson, Winter 2026 – present

Robin Major, “Homogeneity and Representability of Matroids”, Fall 2024 - Winter 2025

Senior projects (MATH 4950): 

Gracie Hackett, “Representability of Matroids”, Winter 2024

Thomas Tucker, “An Introductory Exploration of the p-adic Numbers”, Fall 2022

Sarah Parsons, “An Introduction to Matroid Theory”, Winter 2022