Ian Agol
| Ian Agol | |
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Ian Agol in Aarhus, August 2012 | |
| Born |
May 13, 1970 Hollywood, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Freedman |
| Doctoral students |
Shawn Rafalski Christopher K Atkinson |
| Notable awards |
Veblen Prize in Geometry (2013) Senior Berwick Prize (2012) Clay Research Award (2009) |
Ian Agol (born May 13, 1970) is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds.[1]
Agol obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of California, San Diego with Michael Freedman (topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds).[2] He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley[3] and a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[4]
Ian Agol, Danny Calegari and David Gabai received the 2009 Clay Research Award for the proof of the Marden tameness conjecture, a conjecture of Albert Marden.[5] It states that a hyperbolic 3-manifold with finitely generated fundamental group is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact 3-manifold. The conjecture was proven in 2004 by Agol, and independently by Calegari with Gabai, and implies the Ahlfors measure conjecture.[5]
In 2005 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.[6] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
In 2012 he announced a proof of the virtually Haken conjecture. It states that every aspherical 3-manifold is finitely covered by a Haken manifold.
In 2013, Agol was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, along with Daniel Wise.[8]
His twin brother, Eric Agol,[9][10] is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.[11]
References
- ↑ Mackenzie, Dana; Cipra, Barry (December 20, 2006). What's happening in the mathematical sciences. American Mathematical Society. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-8218-3585-2.
- ↑ Ian Agol at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ "Ian Agol". University of California, Berkeley Department of Mathematics. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ↑ "Ian Agol". University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Clay Research Award". Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ↑ "Ian Agol – Guggenheim Fellows Finder". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/profession/prizebooklet-2013.pdf
- ↑ "Obituaries – Alan Agol". Visalia Times-Delta. October 4, 2005. p. C2.
- ↑ "Alan Agol". Marin Independent Journal. October 5, 2005.
- ↑ "Eric Agol". University of Washington Department of Astronomy. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
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