Benjamin_Sudakov

Benny Sudakov

Benny Sudakov

Israeli mathematician

Benny Sudakov (born October 1969)[1] is an Israeli mathematician, who works mainly on extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.

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He was born in Tbilissi, Georgia,[1] and completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990.[2] After emigrating to Israel, he received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1999, under the supervision of Noga Alon.[3] From 1999 until 2002, he held a Veblen Research Instructorship,[4] a joint position between Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Until 2007, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. Until 2014, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2] In July 2013, Sudakov joined ETH Zurich as a professor.[5]

Sudakov has broad interests within the field of combinatorics, having written papers on extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graphs, and positional games.[2]

In 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 at Hyderabad, on the topic of "Combinatorics".[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Biographies of Candidates 2012" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (8): 1140, 2012
  2. [2]
    "Benny Sudakov's CV" (PDF).
  3. [3]
    Benny Sudakov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. [4]
    "IAS scholar information site". 9 December 2019.
  5. [5]
    Department of Mathematics (September 27, 2012). "ETH Zurich appoints Benjamin Sudakov". www.math.ethz.ch. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  6. [6]
    List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.
  7. [7]
    "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
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