Svetlana Jitomirskaya
| Svetlana Jitomirskaya | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 4, 1966 Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Sinai |
| Notable awards | Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2005) |
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya (born June 4, 1966) is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.[1][2]
Jitomirskaya was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Both her parents were professors of mathematics.[1]
She obtained her Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1991 under the supervision of Yakov Sinai.[3]
In 2005, she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics.[4]
Selected publications
- JITOMIRSKAYA, S. Y. . "Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator". Annals of Mathematics, v. 150, pp. 1159–1175, 1999.
- AVILA, A.; JITOMIRSKAYA, S. Y. . "The ten martini problem". Annals of Mathematics, v. 170 n. 1, pp. 303–342, 2009.
- JITOMIRSKAYA, S. Y.; LAST, Y. . "Power-law subordinacy and singular spectra I. Half-line operators". Acta Mathematica, v. 183 n. 2, pp. 171–189, 1999.