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Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov 
Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner and Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov at the ICM 2006 in MadridBorn 1969
Moscow, Soviet UnionNationality 
RussiaFields Mathematics Institutions Columbia University
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
University of ChicagoAlma mater Moscow State University Doctoral advisor Alexandre Kirillov Notable awards Fields Medal (2006) Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Окуньков, Andrej Okun'kov) (born 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at Columbia University.
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Education and career
He received his doctorate at Moscow State University in 1995 under Alexandre Kirillov. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 2010. He has previously been a professor at Princeton University from 2002 to 2010, an assistant and associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an instructor at the University of Chicago.
Work
He has worked on the representation theory of infinite symmetric groups, the statistics of plane partitions, and the quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the complex plane. Much of his work on Hilbert schemes was joint with Rahul Pandharipande.
Okounkov along with Pandharipande, Nikita Nekrasov, and Davesh Maulik, has formulated well-known conjectures relating the Gromov–Witten invariants and Donaldson–Thomas invariants of threefolds.
Okounkov has an Erdős number of at most three, via Anatoly Vershik and Gregory A. Freiman.
In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."[1]
References
- ^ "Information about Andrei Okounkov, Fields Medal winner", ICM Press Release
External links
- Andrei Okounkov home page at Princeton
- Andrei Okounkov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- EMS Prize 2004 citation
- Fields Medal citation
- Andrei Okounkov's articles on the Arxiv
- Daily Princetonian story
- BBC story
Categories:- 21st-century mathematicians
- Russian mathematicians
- Fields Medalists
- Moscow State University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of Chicago faculty
- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Moscow
- Russian mathematician stubs
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