... Research . ... HSE math department . Independent University . ... I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics , Moscow, Russia. ... My research interests include algebraic geometry, especially geometry of varieties with group actions (toric varieties, spherical varieties, in particular, Grassmannians and flag varieties), representation theory, and algebraic combinatorics. ... Copyright 2015 Evgeny Smirnov . ...