Andrei Okounkov | |
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Born | Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov July 26, 1969 |
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow State University (BS, PhD) |
Awards | Fields Medal (2006) EMS Prize (2004) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Columbia University National Research University – Higher School of Economics Princeton University University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago |
Doctoral advisor | Alexandre Kirillov |
Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Окунько́в, Andrej Okun'kov, born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at the Columbia University and the academic supervisor of HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics.[1] In 2006, he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."[2]