Alexei Borodin

Alexei Borodin
Born (1975-06-30) June 30, 1975 (age 49)
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Institutions
Thesis Harmonic analysis on the infinite symmetric group  (2001)
Doctoral advisorAlexandre Kirillov, Grigori Olshanski

Alexei Mikhailovich Borodin (Russian: Алексе́й Михайлович Бороди́н; born June 30, 1975) is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Research

His research concerns asymptotic representation theory, relations with random matrices and integrable systems, and the difference equation formulation of monodromy.[2]

Education and career

Borodin was born in Donetsk, the son of Donetsk State University mathematics professor Mikhail Borodin.[3] He competed for Ukraine in the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal there.[4] In the same year, he began studying mathematics at Moscow State University, and (because of the collapse of the Soviet Union) was forced to choose between Ukrainian and Russian citizenship, deciding at that time to be Russian.[3] He graduated from Moscow State in 1997 and received M.S.E. in computers and information science and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.[5][6]

He was a Clay Research Fellow and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[5] Next, he taught at the California Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2010, before moving to MIT.[7] In 2016–2017 he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.[8]

Awards and honors

In 2008, Borodin won the European Mathematical Society Prize, one of ten prizes awarded every four years for excellence by a young mathematics researcher.[2] In 2010, he was one of four Caltech faculty invited to present their work at the International Congress of Mathematicians.[9] In 2015 he won the Loève Prize[10] and the Henri Poincaré Prize.[7] In 2018 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[11] and in 2019 he was awarded the Fermat Prize.[12]

References

  1. ^ http://math.mit.edu/people/profile?pid=1222 Archived 2013-01-23 at the Wayback Machine, MIT, retrieved 2011-03-04.
  2. ^ a b EMS Prizes and Felix Klein Prize: Citations and Prize Winner's Lectures (PDF), 5th European Congress of Mathematicians, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-01, retrieved 2010-12-05.
  3. ^ a b Knight, Helen (March 23, 2012), "On the hunt for mathematical beauty: Alexei Borodin uses sophisticated tools to extract information from large groups", MIT News.
  4. ^ Alexei Borodin's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
  5. ^ a b Curriculum vitae from 2002, Clay Mathematics Institute, retrieved 2010-12-05.
  6. ^ Alexei Borodin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  7. ^ a b Knight, Helen (September 28, 2015), "Alexei Borodin receives the 2015 Henri Poincaré Prize", MIT News.
  8. ^ "Alexei Borodin". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Four from Caltech Invited to Key Conference", Caltech Today, May 5, 2009.
  10. ^ "Alexei Borodin awarded 2015 Loève Prize", IMS Bulletin, October 2, 2015.
  11. ^ "Alexei Borodin", Member Directory, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved March 8, 2020
  12. ^ Prix Fermat 2019, November 27, 2019