Akshay Venkatesh

Akshay Venkatesh

Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981 in New Delhi, India) is an Australian mathematician of Indian descent who was a Clay Research Math Fellow research at the Clay Mathematics Institute from 2004 to 2006.

His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces and ergodic theory [http://www.claymath.org/news/researchFellows2004.php] . He is the only Australian to have won medals at both the International Physics Olympiad and International Mathematics Olympiad, at the age of 12 [http://www.amt.edu.au/olympian.html] , [http://www.aso.edu.au/www/index.cfm?itemid=48&CFID=246934&CFTOKEN=70957875] .

Early years

Raised in Perth, Western Australia, where he attended Scotch College, Venkatesh attended extracurricular training classes for gifted students in the state mathematical olympiad program [http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~schultz/memoirs.html] . In 1993, whilst aged only 11, he competed at the 24th International Physics Olympiad in Williamsburg, Virginia, winning a bronze medal [http://www.yalcineli.com/yeni_sayfa_15.htm] . The following year in 1994, he switched his attention to mathematics, and after placing second in the Australian Mathematical Olympiad [http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/amo1994.html] , he won a silver medal in the 6th Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad [http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/apmo6.html] , before winning a bronze medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad held in Hong Kong that year. He completed his secondary education that year, turning 13 at the end of the year. He entered the University of Western Australia the following year as the youngest ever student at the institution and was awarded First Class Honours in Pure mathematics [http://202.38.126.65/mirror/www.maths.uwa.edu.au/general/graduates/honours.php] in 1997, the youngest ever to achieve this feat, as well as being awarded the J. A. Woods Memorial Prize for being the leading graduating student of the year [http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Akshay+Venkatesh%2C+University+of+Western+Australia&btnG=Search&meta=] .

Research career

Venkatesh commenced his PhD at Princeton University in 1998 under Peter Sarnak, which he completed in 2002, producing the thesis "Limiting forms of the trace formula". He was supported by the Hackett Fellowship for postgraduate study. He was then awarded a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as a C.L.E. Moore instructor, until his selection as a Clay Research Fellow in 2004. He was awarded the Salem Prize and the Packard Fellowship in 2007. His research interests are the enumeration of arithmetic objects using upper bounds for the number of rational points on algebraic varieties, and also the analytic theory of automorphic forms, with an interest in quantum chaos and geodesic flows, L-functions, and applications to spectral theory and equidistribution in [http://www.claymath.org/fas/research_fellows/Venkatesh/research.pdf] .

He is currently an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University [http://cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/research/pubs.html] . As of September 1, 2008, he has been appointed a professor at Stanford University.

External links

* [http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/ Homepage]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Akshay Venkatesh — (* 21. November 1981 in New Delhi) ist ein indisch australischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Zahlentheorie, Ergodentheorie und automorphen Formen beschäftigt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Werk 3 Weblinks …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Venkatesh — may refer to:* Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, an American sociologist and urban ethnographer born in India. * Daggubati Venkatesh (b. 1960), also known as Victory Venkatesh, an Indian film actor who stars in Tollywood films. * A. Venkatesh, a popular… …   Wikipedia

  • Elon Lindenstrauss — Naissance 1er août 1970 Jérusalem (Israël) Nationalité …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Prix Salem — Le prix Salem a été fondé par la veuve du mathématicien grec Raphaël Salem (1898 1963). Depuis 1968, il récompense tous les ans, un ou des mathématiciens, s étant illustrés dans les domaines étudiés par Salem, et particulièrement les travaux liés …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Manfred Einsiedler — Manfred Leopold Einsiedler (* 6. März 1973) ist ein österreichischer Mathematiker. Manfred Einsiedler, Oberwolfach 2010 Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Wirken …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Премия Салема — основана наследниками математика и банкира Рафаэля Салема (1898 1963), в размере 5000 фр. франков. Присуждается ежегодно молодому математику, получившему выдающиеся результаты в сфере научных интересов Р. Салема, в первую очередь в теории рядов… …   Википедия

  • Salem Prize — The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem s field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series. Past winners * 1968 Nicholas… …   Wikipedia

  • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences — (CIMS) Established 1935 Type Private Academic staff 82 …   Wikipedia

  • SASTRA Ramanujan Prize — The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology Research Academy (SASTRA) University in Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan s hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding… …   Wikipedia

  • Elon Lindenstrauss — Elon Lindenstrauss, 2009 Elon Lindenstrauss (hebräisch ‏אילון לינדנשטראוס‎; * 1. August 1970 in Jerusalem) ist ein vielfach ausgezeichneter israelischer Mathematiker …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”