Sergey Fomin
Sergey Fomin | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Russia, United States |
Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
Known for | Cluster algebras |
Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Doctoral advisor | Anatoly Vershik Leonid Osipov |
Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin (Сергей Владимирович Фомин) (born 16 February 1958 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with algebra, geometry, and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky, he introduced cluster algebras.
Biography
Fomin received his M.Sc in 1979 and his Ph.D in 1982 from St. Petersburg State University under the direction of Anatoly Vershik and Leonid Osipov.[1] Previous to his appointment at the University of Michigan, he held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1992 to 2000, at the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and at the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. As a member of the USSR team in the 1974 International Mathematical Olympiad[2], Fomin won a silver medal.
Research
Fomin's contributions include
- Discovery (with A. Zelevinsky) of cluster algebras.
- Work (jointly with A. Berenstein and A. Zelevinsky) on total positivity.
- Work (with A. Zelevinsky) on the Laurent phenomenon, including its applications to Somos sequences.
Awards and honors
- Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2018) [3].
- Invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Hyderabad, 2010)[4].
- Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
- Fellow (2012) of the American Mathematical Society[5].
Selected publications
- Fomin, S.; Zelevinsky, A. (2003). "Y-systems and generalized associahedra". Annals of Mathematics. 158: 977–1018. arXiv:math/0505518. doi:10.4007/annals.2003.158.977.
- Fomin, S.; Zelevinsky, A. (2003). "Cluster algebras II: Finite type classification". Inventiones Mathematicae. 154: 63–121. arXiv:math/0208229. Bibcode:2003InMat.154...63F. doi:10.1007/s00222-003-0302-y.
- Fomin, S.; Zelevinsky, A. (2002). "Cluster algebras I: Foundations". Journal of the AMS. 15: 497–529.
- Fomin, S.; Gelfand, S.; Postnikov, A. (1997). "Quantum Schubert Polynomials classification". Journal of the AMS. 10: 565–596.