Alexander Gorodnik
Alexander "Alex" Gorodnik (born June 8, 1975 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a mathematician who deals with dynamic systems, ergodic theory and their connection to number theory , geometry and representation theory. He is a professor at the University of Bristol .
Gorodnik studied at the Kiev State University (graduated in 1997), then worked as a software engineer and received his doctorate (Density and Equidistribution of integer points) from the Ohio State University (where he had been since 1998) with Vitaly Bergelson in 2003 . He was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in 2003/04 and Taussky-Todd Instructor at Caltech from 2004 to 2007 . In 2007/08 he was visiting fellow at Princeton University and from 2007 at Bristol University, from 2010 as a reader.
In 2011 he received the Whitehead Prize for work on homogeneous dynamics, in particular for deep-seated applications in Diophantine geometry. From 2010 to 2015 he received an ERC Starting Grant .
Fonts
- with A. Nevo: The ergodic theory of lattice subgroups, Annals of Mathematics Studies 172, Princeton University Press, 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Gorodnik in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Laudation Whitehead Prize, pdf
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gorodnik, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gorodnik, Alex (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8th 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |