| Shiri Artstein-Avidan | |
| Native Name: | שירי ארטשטיין-אבידן |
| Native Name Lang: | he |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Tel Aviv University |
| Alma Mater: | Tel Aviv University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Vitali Milman |
| Known For: | Convex geometry, asymptotic geometric analysis |
| Awards: | Erdős Prize (2015), Haim Nessyahu Prize (2006), Krill Prize (2008) |
Shiri Artstein-Avidan (Hebrew: שירי ארטשטיין-אבידן, born 28 September 1978) is an Israeli mathematician who in 2015 won the Erdős Prize. She specializes in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis, and is a professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University.[1]
Artstein was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of mathematician Zvi Artstein, best known for his proof of Artstein's theorem. She graduated summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 2000, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and completed her PhD at Tel Aviv University in 2004 under the supervision of Vitali Milman, with a dissertation on Entropy Methods. She worked from 2004 to 2006 as a Veblen Research Instructor in Mathematics at Princeton University and as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study before returning to Tel Aviv as a faculty member in 2006.[2]
Artstein won the Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, an annual dissertation award of the Israel Mathematical Union, in 2006.In 2008 she won the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, from theWolf Foundation.In 2015 she won the Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics. The award cited her "solution of Shannon's long standing problem on monotonicity of entropy (with K. Ball, F. Barthe and A. Naor), profound and unexpected development of the concept of duality, Legendre and Fourier transform from axiomatic viewpoint (with V. Milman) and discovery of an astonishing link between Mahler's conjecture in convexity theory and an isoperimetric-type inequality involving symplectic capacities (with R. Karasev and Y. Ostrover)".[3]
Her research publications include: