Rate My Professor Nikolay Brodskiy

Nikolay Brodskiy is a Professor of Mathematics and Associate Head for Math General Education in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2002, with a dissertation titled "Selections and Approximations of Multivalued Mappings." Brodskiy's research specializes in topology, geometric group theory, and coarse geometry, and he is a member of the department's topology research group. Joining the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor around 2004, he has advanced to full Professor and contributed significantly to these fields through scholarly publications and conference presentations.

Brodskiy's key publications include "A Hurewicz theorem for the Assouad-Nagata dimension," co-authored with Jerzy Dydak, Michael Levin, and Atish Mitra in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2008); "Compression of uniform embeddings into Hilbert space"; and papers on dimension and decomposition complexity of tree-graded spaces, as well as topological and uniform structures on universal covering spaces. He has advised numerous graduate students on dissertations such as "A Coarse Approach to the Freudenthal Compactification and Ends of Groups" by Hussain S. Rashed (2022), "Coarse Proximity Spaces" by Jeremy D. Siegert (2021), "Localization of Large Scale Structures" by Ryan J. Jensen (2017), and others focusing on coarse structures, homotopy theory, and large-scale geometry. Brodskiy has presented at AMS Sectional Meetings, Topology Workshops, and organized sessions on coarse topology with connections to geometric group theory. His service includes membership on the General Education Strategic Action Team (2024-2026) and serving as Faculty in Charge for the Putnam Competition.