Alexei Borodin

Alexei Borodin
Born June 25, 1975
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian
Fields Mathematician
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor Alexandre Kirillov
Doctoral students Mirjana Vuletic
Notable awards European Mathematical Society Prize

Alexei Borodin (Russian: Алексе́й Бороди́н; born June 25, 1975) is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Research

Before joining the Caltech faculty, he was a Clay Research Fellow and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2]

His research concerns asymptotic representation theory, relations with random matrices and integrable systems, and the difference equation formulation of monodromy.[3] In 2010, he was one of four Caltech faculty invited to present their work at the International Congress of Mathematicians.[4]

Education

Borodin graduated from Moscow State University in 1997 and received M.S.E. in computers and information science and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.[2][5]

Awards

In 2008, Borodin won the European Mathematical Society Prize, one of ten prizes awarded every four years for excellence by a young mathematics researcher.[3]

References

  1. http://math.mit.edu/people/profile?pid=1222, MIT, retrieved 2011-03-04.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Curriculum vitae from 2002, Clay Mathematics Institute, retrieved 2010-12-05.
  3. 3.0 3.1 EMS Prizes and Felix Klein Prize: Citations and Prize Winner's Lectures (PDF), 5th European Congress of Mathematicians, 2008.
  4. "Four from Caltech Invited to Key Conference", Caltech Today, May 5, 2009.
  5. Alexei Borodin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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