Shamil Asgarli
Starting Fall 2022, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia with Dragos Ghioca and Zinovy Reichstein as my mentors.
I received my PhD from Brown University (May 2019) under the supervision of Brendan Hassett.
I am interested in algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry, with recent foray into algebraic graph theory. Much of my work has focused on geometry and combinatorics over finite fields, but I am also interested in problems in characteristic 0.
Email: sasgarli@scu.edu
Papers and preprints
- A New Proof of Warning's Second Theorem The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 125, No. 6 (2018), 549--553.
- The Picard group of the moduli of smooth complete intersections of two quadrics (with Giovanni Inchiostro), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 372, No. 5 (2019) p. 3319--3346.
- Sharp Bertini theorem for plane curves over finite fields, Canadian Math. Bulletin. Vol. 62 (2), 2019 p. 223--230.
- Transverse lines to surfaces over finite fields (with Lian Duan and Kuan-Wen Lai), manuscripta mathematica (165) pages 135--157 (2021) Erratum
- On the proportion of transverse-free plane curves (with Brian Freidin), Finite Fields and Their Applications. Vol 72, June 2021
- A Bertini type theorem for pencils over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca), Finite Fields and Their Applications. Vol 77, Jan 2022
- Bijective Cremona transformations of the plane (with Kuan-Wen Lai, Masahiro Nakahara, Susanna Zimmermann), Selecta Mathematica, New Series 28, 53 (2022)
- Van Lint-MacWilliams' conjecture and maximum cliques in Cayley graphs over finite fields (with Chi Hoi Yip), Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Vol. 192 (2022), 105667.
- The EKR-module property of pseudo-Paley graphs of square order (with Sergey Goryainov, Huiqiu Lin, and Chi Hoi Yip), Electron. J. Combin. 29 (2022), no. 4, Paper No. P4.33, 19 pp.
- Smoothness in pencils of hypersurfaces over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca), Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (2023), Volume 107, Issue 1, February 2023, 85-94.
- Linear families of smooth hypersurfaces over finitely generated fields (with Dragos Ghioca and Zinovy Reichstein), Finite Fields and Their Applications, Volume 87, March 2023, 102169.
- Plane curves giving rise to blocking sets over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca and Chi Hoi Yip), Des. Codes Cryptogr. 91 (2023), no. 11, 3643–3669.
- Existence of pencils with nonblocking hypersurfaces (with Dragos Ghioca and Chi Hoi Yip), Finite Fields and Their Applications, Vol 92, December 2023, 102283.
- Transverse linear subspaces to hypersurfaces over finite fields (with Lian Duan and Kuan-Wen Lai), Finite Fields and Their Applications, Vol. 95, March 2024, 102396.
- Tangent-filling plane curves over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca), Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Vol. 109, Issue 2, April 2024, pp. 301--315.
- A Fair Shake: How close can the sum of n-sided dice be to a uniform distribution? (with Michael Hartglass, Daniel Ostrov and Byron Walden), American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 131, Issue 7 (2024), 608--617.
- Most plane curves over finite fields are not blocking (with Dragos Ghioca and Chi Hoi Yip), Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Vol. 204, May 2024, 105871.
- The subspace structure of maximum cliques in pseudo-Paley graphs from unions of cyclotomic classes (with Chi Hoi Yip), Finite Fields and Their Applications, Vol. 99, October 2024, 102492.
- Linear system of hypersurfaces passing through a Galois orbit (with Dragos Ghioca and Zinovy Reichstein), Research in Number Theory, Volume 10, article number 84, (2024).
- Frobenius nonclassical hypersurfaces (with Lian Duan and Kuan-Wen Lai), Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 309, article number 18, (2025).
- Plane-filling curves of small degree over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca), to appear in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
- Linear system of geometrically irreducible plane cubics over finite fields (with Dragos Ghioca), Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, published online (27 February 2025)
- Chromatic quasisymmetric functions of the path graph (with Farid Aliniaeifard, Maria Esipova, Ethan Shelburne, Stephanie van Willigenburg, and Tamsen Whitehead McGinley), Annals of Combinatorics (May 2025).
- Counting subgraphs of coloring graphs (with Sara Krehbiel, Howard Levinson, and Heather Russell), Graphs and Combinatorics, Volume 41, article number 82, (2025).
- Proportion of blocking curves in a pencil (with Dragos Ghioca and Chi Hoi Yip), Discrete Mathematics 349 (2026), no. 1, Paper No. 114668, 7pp.
- Mutual position of two smooth quadrics over finite fields (with Chi Hoi Yip), Designs, Codes and Cryptography, published online (6 July 2025).
- Collision of orbits for families of polynomials defined over fields of positive characteristic (with Dragos Ghioca), accepted for publication in Mathematische Zeitschrift.
- Improved lower bounds for the maximum order of an induced acyclic subgraph (with Donald Falkenhagen and Kaya Hoshi), accepted for publication in Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory.
- An Erdős--Ko--Rado theorem for binary codes (with Chi Hoi Yip), accepted for publication in Bulletin of Australian Mathematical Society.
- Hypersurfaces passing through the Galois orbit of a point (with Jonathan Love and Chi Hoi Yip), submitted for publication.
- Coloring graphs as complete graph invariants (with Sara Krehbiel and Howard Levinson), submitted for publication.
- Blocking sets from a union of plane curves (with Dragos Ghioca and Chi Hoi Yip), submitted for publication.
- Extremal diameters of 3-coloring graphs of trees (with Sara Krehbiel, Simon MacLean, and Gjergji Zaimi), submitted for publication.
- Bell coloring graphs: realizability and reconstruction (with Sara Krehbiel and Simon MacLean), submitted for publication.
- Defective chromatic polynomials (with Tamsen Whitehead McGinley and Nicholas Xue), submitted for publication.
Teaching at Santa Clara University
Teaching at UBC (past)
Here are some of the classes I taught at the University of British Columbia (as a postdoctoral fellow):
Teaching at Brown (past)
Here are some of the classes I TA-ed or taught at Brown (as a graduate student):