Igor Rodnianski

Igor Rodnianski
Fields Partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and general relativity
Institutions Princeton University
Alma mater Kansas State University
Thesis 'Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Almost Complex Manifolds' (1999)
Doctoral advisor
Lev Vil'evich Kapitanskii
Notable awards Fermat Prize, Clay Mathematics Institute Long-term Prize

Igor Rodnianski (born April 28, 1972, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and general relativity.

Life

Rodnianski studied at the University of Saint Petersburg, graduating in Physics in 1996. He graduated in 1999 from Kansas State University.

Career

Igor Rodnianski becomes instructor at Princeton in 1999. He was promoted to associate professor before 2004. In 2005, Dr. Rodnianski wrote paper on rough solutions to the historical Einstein Vacuum Equation with S. Klainerman.

He became full professor at Princeton in 2005. In 2011, he moved Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Work

Prof. Rodnianski specializes in hyperbolic partial differential equations related to fundamental problems of mathematics. His mathematics has its basis in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics. In 2002 he received the Long-Term Prize fellowship of the Clay Mathematics Institute, and in 2010 the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Kansas State University.[1] He received the 2011 Fermat Prize for Mathematical Research, "for fundamental contributions to the study of equations of general relativity and the propagation of light in curved space-times (with M. Dafermos, S. Klainerman, H. Lindblad)."[2]


References

  1. "MIT Mathematics: Igor Rodnianski". MIT. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
  2. "Prix Fermat de Recherche en Mathématiques" (in French). Institut de mathématiques de Toulouse. Retrieved 9 December 2011.