Alex Eskin Explained

Alex Eskin
Birth Date:May 19, 1965
Birth Place:Moscow, USSR
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Chicago
Alma Mater:UCLA
Princeton University
Thesis Title:Counting Lattice Points on Homogeneous Spaces
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Thesis Year:1993
Doctoral Advisor:Peter Sarnak
Doctoral Students:Moon DuchinSimion Filip

Alex Eskin (born May 19, 1965, Moscow, USSR[1]) is an American mathematician. He is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.[2] His research focuses on rational billiards and geometric group theory.

Biography

Eskin was born in Moscow on May 19, 1965.[1] [2] [3] He is the son of a Russian-Jewish mathematician Gregory I. Eskin (b. 1936, Kiev), a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The family emigrated to Israel in 1974 and in 1982 to the United States.

Eskin earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1993, under the supervision of Peter Sarnak.

Eskin has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999.

Awards

Eskin gave invited talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998,[4] and in Hyderabad in 2010.[5]

For his contribution to joint work with David Fisher and Kevin Whyte establishing the quasi-isometric rigidity of solvable groups, Eskin was awarded the 2007 Clay Research Award.[6] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] In April 2015, Eskin was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[8] [9] Eskin won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize[10] [11] in mathematics for his classification of

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-invariant and stationary measures for the moduli of translation surfaces,[12] in joint work with Maryam Mirzakhani.

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eskin/vitae.pdf Alex Eskin, Curriculum Vitae
  2. Web site: Louise Lerner. UChicago mathematician, physicists win $3 million 'Oscars of science'. UChicago News, University of Chicago. 2019-09-06. 2019-09-07.
  3. Web site: Alex Eskin. Member profile.. U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 2019-09-10.
  4. Book: Eskin, Alex. Counting problems and semisimple groups. Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. 1998. 539–552. https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011691000.
  5. https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=eskin ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers
  6. Web site: Clay Research Award. . Clay Mathematics Institute. 2019-06-25.
  7. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  8. Web site: Mathematician Alex Eskin, two alumni elected to National Academy of Sciences. UChicagoNews. 2015-05-05 . 2015-11-20.
  9. http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected
  10. News: Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'. Live Science. Rafi Letzter. 2019-09-05. 2019-09-07.
  11. Web site: Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2020 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced. breakthroughprize.org.
  12. Invariant and stationary measures for the action on Moduli space. Alex. Eskin. Maryam. Mirzakhani. June 7, 2018. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 127. 1. 95–324. 10.1007/s10240-018-0099-2. 119906170.

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