Ciprian Manolescu
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Ciprian Manolescu (b. December 24, 1978 in Alexandria, Romania) is presently an Assistant Professor and a Clay Research Fellow in the mathematics department at Columbia University.
He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University under the direction of Peter B. Kronheimer. His thesis topic was A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg-Witten equations. His research interests span the areas of gauge theory, symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, and low-dimensional topology.
He is among the handful of recipients of the Clay Research Fellowship (2004–2008).
Winner of the Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, awarded jointly by AMS-MAA-SIAM, in 2001. His undergraduate thesis was on Finite dimensional approximation in Seiberg-Witten theory.
He had a strong record in mathematical competitions :
- He placed in the top 5 on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for college undergraduates in 1997, 1998, and 2000.
- He also holds the sole distinction of writing three perfect papers at the International Mathematical Olympiad: Toronto, Canada (1995); Bombay, India (1996); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1997).
