Jan Minac, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Absolute Galois groups, Massey products, Koszulity, and applications to networks and data science
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$60,000
Absolute Galois groups and Massey products
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$180,000
""Sylow-p Subgroups of Absolute Galois Groups, their Natural Quotients, and Galois Cohomology""
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$175,000

All 9 grants and awards

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Absolute Galois groups, Massey products, Koszulity, and applications to networks and data science

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

Keywords: absolute galois groups; milnor k-theory; bloch-kato conjecture; massey products; descending central series; unipotent galois representations; koszulity of galois cohomology; graph theory; data science; network data

$60,000

Absolute Galois groups and Massey products

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$180,000

""Sylow-p Subgroups of Absolute Galois Groups, their Natural Quotients, and Galois Cohomology""

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$175,000

Sylow-p subgroups of absolute galois groups, representation theory, and galois cohomology

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$90,000

Galois groups, topology, and number theory

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$76,000

Galois groups, cohomology of groups, arithmetic and topology

Principal investigatorNSERC1999Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$75,600

Galois theory of quadratic forms and zeta functions

Principal investigatorNSERC1995Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$53,300

Quadratic forms, Galois cohomology and central simple algebras

Principal investigatorNSERC1992Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$36,000

Witt rings, Galois groups and cohomological invariants

Principal investigatorNSERC1989Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Minac, Jan

$12,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Minac, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Absolute Galois groups, Massey products, Koszulity, and applications to networks and data science" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]