Andrei Okounkov

Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov
Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner and Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov at the ICM 2006 in Madrid
Born	(1969-07-26) July 26, 1969 Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Awards	Fields Medal (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Alexandre Kirillov

Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov ([Андрей Юрьевич Окуньков, Andrej Okun'kov] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) (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.

Education and career

He received his doctorate at Moscow State University in 1995 under Alexandre Kirillov. He has been a professor at Princeton University since 2002, and was previously an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an instructor at the University of Chicago.

Work

He has worked on the representation theory of infinite symmetric groups, the statistics of plane partitions, and the quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the complex plane. Much of his work on Hilbert schemes was joint with Rahul Pandharipande.

Okounkov along with Pandharipande, Nikita Nekrasov, and Davesh Maulik, has formulated well-known conjectures relating the Gromov-Witten invariants and Donaldson–Thomas invariants of threefolds.

Okounkov has an Erdős number of at most three, via Anatoly Vershik and Gregory A. Freiman.

In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."

External links

• Andrei Okounkov home page at Princeton
• Andrei Okounkov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• EMS Prize 2004 citation
• Fields Medal citation
• Andrei Okounkov's articles on the Arxiv
• Daily Princetonian story
• BBC story