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Alex Eskin

Alex Eskin

American mathematician

Alex Eskin (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Эскин, 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.

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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.[citation needed]

Eskin earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1993, under the supervision of Peter Sarnak.[4]

Eskin has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999.[5]

Awards

Eskin gave invited talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998,[6] and in Hyderabad in 2010.[7]

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.[8] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9] In April 2015, Eskin was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[5][10] Eskin won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize[11][12] in mathematics for his classification of -invariant and stationary measures for the moduli of translation surfaces,[13] in joint work with Maryam Mirzakhani.

Selected publications

  • Alex Eskin; Curt McMullen (1993). "Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups". Duke Mathematical Journal. 71 (1): 181–209. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.39.8202. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-93-07108-6. S2CID 611397.
  • Alex Eskin; David Fisher; Kevin Whyte (2012). "Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries I: Spaces not quasi-isometric to Cayley graphs" (PDF). Annals of Mathematics. 176 (1): 221–260. doi:10.4007/annals.2012.176.1.3. S2CID 8793786.
  • Alex Eskin; Maryam Mirzakhani; Amir Mohammadi (2015). "Isolation, equidistribution, and orbit closures for the action on moduli space". Annals of Mathematics. 182 (2): 673–721. arXiv:1305.3015. doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.2.7. S2CID 8229920.
  • Alex Eskin; Maryam Mirzakhani (June 7, 2018). "Invariant and stationary measures for the action on Moduli space". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 127 (1): 95–324. arXiv:1302.3320. doi:10.1007/s10240-018-0099-2. S2CID 119906170.

References

  1. [1]
    Alex Eskin, Curriculum Vitae Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago. Accessed 2019-09-07
  2. [2]
    Louise Lerner (2019-09-06). "UChicago mathematician, physicists win $3 million 'Oscars of science'". UChicago News, University of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. [3]
    "Alex Eskin. Member profile". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  4. [4]
    Alex Eskin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. [5]
    "Mathematician Alex Eskin, two alumni elected to National Academy of Sciences". UChicagoNews. 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  6. [6]
    Eskin, Alex (1998). "Counting problems and semisimple groups". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 539–552.
  7. [7]
    ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers, International Mathematical Union. Accessed 2019-09-07.
  8. [8]
    "Clay Research Award". Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  9. [9]
    List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-12-02.
  10. [10]
    National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected Archived 2015-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, April 28, 2015; accessed November 20, 2015
  11. [11]
    Rafi Letzter (2019-09-05). "Mathematician Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'". Live Science. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  12. [12]
    "Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2020 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced". breakthroughprize.org.
  13. [13]
    Eskin, Alex; Mirzakhani, Maryam (June 7, 2018). "Invariant and stationary measures for the action on Moduli space". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 127 (1): 95–324. doi:10.1007/s10240-018-0099-2. S2CID 119906170.
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