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Adam Kanigowski

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Adam Kanigowski
Born (1989-04-15) April 15, 1989 (age 35)
Toruń, Poland
NationalityPolish
Awards
  • 2016 International Stefan Banach Prize
  • 2017 Kazimierz Kuratowski Award
  • 2024 Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Prize
  • 2024 EMS Prize
Academic background
EducationMathematics
Alma materNicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
ThesisErgodic properties of smooth flows on surfaces (2015)
Doctoral advisorMariusz Lemańczyk
Joanna Kułaga-Przymus
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland Jagiellonian University
Main interestsDynamical systems
Ergodic theory
Websitehttps://akanigow.math.umd.edu/

Adam Kanigowski (born 15 April 1989)[1] is a Polish mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and ergodic theory. He is a professor at the University of Maryland.[2]

Education

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Kanigowski was born in Toruń.[1] He earned his master's degree in mathematics from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2012,[1][3] and his Ph.D. in 2015 from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Mariusz Lemańczyk and Joanna Kułaga-Przymus.[3][4] His dissertation was entitled Własności ergodyczne gładkich potoków na powierzchniach (Ergodic properties of smooth flows on surfaces) and awarded the International Stefan Banach Prize in 2016.[4][5]

Career and research

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After graduating, Kanigowski joined Penn State University as an S. Chowla Research Assistant Professor in 2015 and then joined UMD as an assistant professor in 2018, where he was promoted to full professor in 2024. Since December 2022, Kanigowski has led a flagship project at Jagiellonian University that partly supports a research collaboration with UMD.[3][6]

Kanigowski's research interests include dynamical systems and ergodic theory as well as their interaction with number theory, geometry and probability theory. In particular, he is interested in randomness and chaos in smooth dynamical systems, classification problems in abstract ergodic theory, and non-standard ergodic theorems that find application in number theory. Together with collaborators, he solved several longstanding open problems and conjuctures, such as the Rokhlin problem, the Sarnak hypothesis, the Katok hypothesis and the Ratner problem.[6]

Kanigowski has published more than 30 papers in premier mathematical journals including the most prestigious ones, such as Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Inventiones Mathematicae.[7][3] Among his collaborators are Dmitry Dolgopyat, Bassam Fayad, Giovanni Forni, Mariusz Lemańczyk, Maksym Radziwiłł, Federico Rodriguez Hertz, and Corinna Ulcigrai.[7]

Recognition

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In 2015, the Polish Mathematical Society gave Kanigowski their Prize for Young Mathematicians (he was awarded for a series of six papers in the field of ergodic theory and operator theory).[8] He was the 2016 winner of the International Stefan Banach Prize for a doctoral dissertation in the mathematical sciences.[5] In 2017 he received the Kazimierz Kuratowski Award from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Mathematical Society.[9] In March 2024, the Simons Foundation named Kanigowski a 2024 Simons Fellow in Mathematics,[10][3] in April he received the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in mathematics for his fundamental results in the field of dynamical systems and ergodic theory,[11][3] and in July he was awarded the EMS Prize for his outstanding contributions to the spectral classification and the mixing properties of slowly chaotic dynamical systems.[12][3]

Personal life

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Adam Kanigowski has two daughters.[13] In June 2024 he finished his first Ironman triathlon.[3][13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Adam Kanigowski laureatem Nagrody im. Kazimierza Kuratowskiego 2017 | Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne". www.ptm.org.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  2. ^ "Department of Mathematics - Kanigowski, Adam M." www-math.umd.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Department of Mathematics - Adam Kanigowski Awarded European Mathematical Society Prize". www-math.umd.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  4. ^ a b "Adam Kanigowski - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  5. ^ a b "Laureates". THE INTERNATIONAL STEFAN BANACH PRIZE. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  6. ^ a b "News - Jagiellonian University - Jagiellonian University". en.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  7. ^ a b "Adam Kanigowski - Author Profile - zbMATH Open". zbmath.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  8. ^ "Adam Kanigowski | Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne". www.ptm.org.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  9. ^ "Kazimierz Kuratowski Award". www.impan.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  10. ^ "2024 Simons Fellows in Mathematics Announced". Simons Foundation. 20 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  11. ^ "Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in mathematics". www.impan.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  12. ^ "EMS | Fourteen prizes awarded to European mathematicians at the 9th ECM". euromathsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  13. ^ a b "Wielki sukces matematyków z Polski. Jendrej i Kanigowski z prestiżową nagrodą". www.rmf24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-07-19.
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