About Me oops

Hello! My name is Darius Alizadeh, and I'm a postdoc at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai. I got my PhD from the University of Illinois Chicago, where I was advised by Daniel Groves. My broad area of interest is geometric group theory.

My email is dariusdalizadeh at gmail dot com

Please enjoy your stay here on my website.


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Teaching oops

Here are all the classes I have taught.
College Algebra | Spring 2022
Precalculus | Fall 2025, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Calculus for Life Sciences | Fall 2021
Calculus II | Spring 2023
Calculus II | Spring 2024
Analysis Workshop | Fall 2024, Spring 2025
College Algebra Workshop | Fall 2022

Here are some other teaching experiences I have had.
Instructor for the UIC Young Scholars Program | Summers of 2023, 2025, 2026.
Instructor for Math Circles of Chicago at St. Therese Chinese Catholic School. | Spring 2025
Mentor for UIC's Directed Reading Program | Fall 2024, Fall, Summer 2025, Spring, Fall 2026

Other oops

Here are some other things I've done.

In the 2021/2022 school year I completed the INMAS program and received an internship at the pharmaceutical company Abbvie, where I analyzed bioreactor data to understand variations in their production process.

In Fall 2024 I completed the Erdos Institute's Data Science Bootcamp. Our project focused on forecasting the type and volume of calls to emergency medical services. It was accepted "with distinction", and you can see it here.

In the 2023/2024 school year, I organized the Graduate Geometry, Topology, and Dynamical Systems Seminar (GGTDSS), which has thankfully been renamed DoGGs.

I helped organize World of GroupCraft V, a 24 hour virtual marathon conference in geometric group theory with talks from around the globe.

After making my own flutes out of PVC for some time, I picked up the standard Boehm style flute in the Summer of 2025.

Research oops

I am interested in (relatively) hyperbolic groups and their Bowditch boundaries, in particular the correspondence between topological features of the boundary and algebraic features of the group. I'm also interested in coarse geometry and adaptations of methods from manifolds to general groups.

Combining relatively hyperbolic groups over a complex of groups, Oct 2025

Branched Covers of Hyperbolic Groups, June 2026

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