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With Gromoll initially; sole since ~2018. Rebuilt dept website, maintains seminar pages, room booking system. Launched UVA Math Twitter/Instagram in 2022
Probability Seminar co-organizer
2014–present
Hosted 17+ external speakers by 2017; ongoing
Undergraduate Math Club co-organizer
2014–2017
With Obus, then Maloni. Students started "Virginia Mathematics Society" CIO in 2016
Postdoc hiring committee
2015–16, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2024
Chair selection committee
2016–17, 2020–21
Colloquium committee
2018–2021
Confirmed in 2019 report
Tenure-track hiring committee
2019–20, 2022–23, 2025–26
General faculty search 2022–23; Pitts professorship search in 2025–26
Promotion and tenure committee
2019
For Yen Do
Graduate committee
2020–23
Confirmed in 2022 and 2023 reports
Graduate admissions committee
2020–23, 2024–25
Confirmed across 2022, 2023, 2024 reports
Senior Advisor to Chair (Analysis)
2022–23
Confirmed in 2022 and 2023 reports and 3-year report
Analysis general exam syllabus committee
2023
Confirmed in 2023 report and 3-year report
Instructional Partner (LDT liaison)
2020, 2022–23
Liaison with UVA Learning Design & Technology; confirmed in 2020 notes, 2022 report, 2023 report
IMS (Institute of Mathematical Sciences) committee
Fall 2023–present
Reviews/approves funds for visitors and conferences. Start confirmed in 2023 report
Math major intake advisor
Fall 2023–present
Start confirmed in 2023 report; ongoing through 2024–25
MATH 2310 (Calculus 3) coordination
2024
Mentored GTAs and new instructor
Peer review committee
2024–25
Nominations committee (faculty awards)
2025–26
Graduation official
2020, 2025–26
Organized online graduation ceremony in 2020
Digital accessibility coordinator
2025–present
Department-wide accessibility compliance for website and teaching materials
AI Faculty Guide
2024–25
Provost initiative; AI Institute workshop, colloquium session, "AI tackles finals" workshop, created AI math advisor tool
College Fellows
2025–27
Selected for College Fellows position
Volunteer / Informal Department Service
Activity
Years
Notes
Math Circle
2020, 2025–26
Outreach talks and volunteering
AWM Math Olympiad for middle school
2025
Volunteered as organizer
Reading seminars
2016–19, 2019, 2024
With Saenz (2016–19); with Morse (2019) on Macdonald polynomials; at IPAM (2024) on Macdonald operators
General exam organization
2020
For PhD students
Analysis teaching caucus
2020
Organized in Fall 2020
Analysis Commons Seminar co-organizer
2019
Confirmed in 2019 report
GTA improvement group
2021
Confirmed in 2021 notes
JMM Grad Fair
2020, 2024
Promoted UVA Math at national meeting; prepared handouts for 2024 and 2025
First-year / transfer advising
2018–2020, 2022–23
~50 students over 3 years (2018–20); Fall 2022, Spring 2023 confirmed in reports
Online tea time organizer
Spring 2020
During COVID
Grant-writing workshop panelist
2022
UVA Math department workshop
Room booking system development
2025
For Kerchof Hall, adopted by department
Hosted external visitors
2025
Economics Department visitor
P&T panel discussion
2025
College of Arts & Sciences
Math Experimental Lab
2025
1-credit undergraduate research experience
Earthlings Hub teaching
Summer 2022
High school math enrichment
Editorial Boards
Journal
Years
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (MPAG)
2019–2025
Combinatorial Theory
2021–present
Electronic Journal / Communications of Probability
~2023–present
Program Committees
Event
Years
FPSAC (Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics)
2017, 2021, 2024
Journal Reviewing
Ongoing since 2014. Journals reviewed for include (compiled across all years):
Annals of Probability
Advances in Mathematics
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Duke Mathematical Journal
Inventiones Mathematicae
Journal of the American Mathematical Society (JAMS) (2022)
Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Probability Theory and Related Fields
Selecta Mathematica
International Mathematics Research Notices
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (2019)
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (2023)
Proceedings of the AMS
Forum of Mathematics, Pi (2023)
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (2019, 2022)
Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France
Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2022, 2023)
Functional Analysis and its Applications (2019)
Combinatorial Theory
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Journal of Statistical Physics
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (MPAG) (2019)
Electronic Journal of Probability
Electronic Communications in Probability
SIGMA
Arkiv for Matematik
Funkcialaj Ekvacioj
Contemporary Mathematics (2023)
Progress in Mathematics (2019)
Mathematical Reviews / MathSciNet (~15 reviews by 2017; 8 reviews in 2019; 6 reviews in 2022; 6 reviews in 2025)
Grant Reviewing
Agency
Years
NSF (DMS panels)
2023, and other years (mentioned in CV as ongoing)
NSERC (Canada)
2019
FONDECYT/ANID (Chile)
2020
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2023
Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
2023
Oak Ridge / Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan)
2023
Canada (unspecified)
2024
Hong Kong (unspecified)
2024
Poland (unspecified)
2024
4-VA Collaborative Research Program
2023, 2025 (7 applications in 2025)
European Research Council (ERC)
2025
Simons Foundation
2026
PhD Examining / Defense Committees (for other advisors' students)
Student
Role
Year
Evgeni Dimitrov (advisor: Borodin, MIT)
Dissertation committee
2018
Mojdeh Tarighat (UVA)
Oral exam committee
2020
George Seelinger (UVA)
PhD defense committee
2021
Joe Eisner (UVA)
PhD defense committee
2021
Yaolong Shen (advisor: W. Wang, UVA)
Thesis committee
2024
Declan Stacy (advisor: Foldes, UVA)
DMP committee
2024
Matthew Walker (Physics PhD, UVA)
Defense committee
2025
Mojdeh Feller (Math PhD, UVA)
Defense committee
2025
Holden Eriksson (Math PhD, UVA)
Oral exam committee
2025
Note: 2023 report mentions "PhD dissertation committee (2)" in Spring 2023 — likely Seelinger/Eisner carryover or other students not named.
Conference / Workshop Organization
(Comprehensive list — also tracked in CV)
Year
Event
2017
Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2017 at UVA (local organizer)
2018
FRG Conference "Integrable Probability Boston 2018" at MIT (co-organizer)
2018
Workshop on Representation Theory, Combinatorics, and Geometry at UVA
2019
Virginia Integrable Probability Summer School (VIPSS 2019)
2020
Online conference on Statistical Mechanics, Integrable Systems and Probability
2020
Moderator, Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium
2020, 2022
AMS Special Session on Integrable Probability at UVA (postponed then canceled due to COVID)
2021
MATRIX Institute program "Integrability and combinatorics at finite temperature" (virtual)
2023
SouthEastern Probability Conference II at UVA
2024
AMS-AWM Special Session at JMM 2024, San Francisco
2024
Workshop "Randomness and Lie-Theoretic Structures" at UVA
2024
Virginia Integrable Probability Summer School (VIPSS 2024)
2024
Blue Ridge Probability Day at UVA
2025
AIM Workshop "All roads to the KPZ universality class"
2025
Section at Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2025
2025
Workshop for teachers: "Making Interactive Math on the Web" at UVA
2026
AMS Special Session at JMM 2026, Washington DC
2026
Coin Flippers 2026: ICM Satellite, University of Delaware
Outreach / Broader Impact
Activity
Years
Notes
Interactive web simulations gallery
2015–present
60+ simulations at lpetrov.cc/simulations/; 50 created in 2025 alone
Art exhibition at Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
2016
Random lozenge tiling images (with Borodin)
Summer school mini-course (Russia, in Russian)
2019
For high school / beginning undergrad students, Summer School "Contemporary Mathematics"
Online community engagement
2019–present
Social media outreach to Russian-speaking math community; 250+ subscribers in 2019, ~700 in 2022, 800+ in 2023. Attracted grad student from Moscow to UVA in 2019
UVA Math social media (Twitter/Instagram)
2022–present
Launched and regularly posted
Popular math problem in "Kvantik" journal
2023
Problem for middle school students, in Russian
Department website accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
2025–present
Redesigning UVA Math site; developing PDF-to-HTML/MathML tool
AI best practices for mathematicians
2024–25
Sharing guides, panel discussions
MSRI/IPAM Program Service
Activity
Year
MSRI "Universality and Integrability" — Research Professor
Fall 2021
MSRI seminar committee
2021
MSRI postdoc mentor
2021
MSRI professional development panel
2021
IPAM "Geometry, Statistical Mechanics, and Integrability" — Senior member