Alex Eskin
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Alex Eskin (Template:Langx, born May 19, 1965)[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 Kiev on May 19, 1965.[2][3] He is the son of a Russian-Jewish mathematician Gregory I. Eskin,Template:Cn a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The family emigrated to Israel in 1974 and in 1982 to the United States.[4]
Eskin earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1993, under the supervision of Peter Sarnak.[5]
Eskin has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999.[6]
Awards
Eskin gave invited talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998,[7] and in Hyderabad in 2010.[8]
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.[9] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10] In April 2015, Eskin was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[6][11] Eskin won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize[12][13] in mathematics for his classification of -invariant and stationary measures for the moduli of translation surfaces,[14] in joint work with Maryam Mirzakhani.
Selected publications
References
External links
- ↑ Alex Eskin, Curriculum Vitae Template:Webarchive, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago. Accessed 2019-09-07
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- 1965 births
- 20th-century American mathematicians
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- Living people
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Clay Research Award recipients
- Dynamical systems theorists
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Princeton University alumni
- Simons Investigator
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Chicago faculty