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Interview at CIRM: Peter Sarnak
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Authors : Sarnak, Peter (Interviewee)
CIRM (Publisher )
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Abstract :
Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in analytic number theory. Sarnak is also on the permanent faculty at the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study. He also sits on the Board of Adjudicators and the selection committee for the Mathematics award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.
Sarnak graduated University of the Witwatersrand (B.Sc. 1975) and Stanford University (Ph.D. 1980), under the direction of Paul Cohen. Sarnak's highly cited work (with A. Lubotzky and R. Philips) applied deep results in number theory to Ramanujan graphs, with connections to combinatorics and computer science.
Peter Sarnak was awarded the Polya Prize of Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics in 1998, the Ostrowski Prize in 2001, the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2003, the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005 and a Lester R. Ford Award in 2012. He is the recipient of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
He was also elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) in 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago in 2015.
MSC Codes : Sarnak graduated University of the Witwatersrand (B.Sc. 1975) and Stanford University (Ph.D. 1980), under the direction of Paul Cohen. Sarnak's highly cited work (with A. Lubotzky and R. Philips) applied deep results in number theory to Ramanujan graphs, with connections to combinatorics and computer science.
Peter Sarnak was awarded the Polya Prize of Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics in 1998, the Ostrowski Prize in 2001, the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2003, the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005 and a Lester R. Ford Award in 2012. He is the recipient of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
He was also elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) in 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago in 2015.
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Information on the Video
Film maker : Vareilles, Stéphanie ; Hennenfent, GuillaumeLanguage : English Available date : 14/12/16 Conference Date : 12/12/16 Series : Outreach Subseries : CIRM interviews arXiv category : Popularization Mathematical Area(s) : Mathematics Education & Popularization of Mathematics Format : MP4 (.mp4) - HD Video Time : 00:19:27 Targeted Audience : General Public Download : https://videos.cirm-math.fr/2016-12-12_ITW_Sarnak.mp4 
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Information on the Event
Event Title : Ergodic theory and its connections with arithmetic and combinatorics / Théorie ergodique et ses connexions avec l'arithmétique et la combinatoireEvent Organizers : Cassaigne, Julien ; Ferenczi, Sébastien ; Hubert, Pascal ; Kulaga-Przymus, Joanna ; Lemanczyk, Mariusz Dates : 12/12/16 - 16/12/16 Event Year : 2016 Event URL : https://www.chairejeanmorlet.com/1553.html
Citation Data
DOI : 10.24350/CIRM.V.19102003Cite this video as: Sarnak, Peter (2016). Interview at CIRM: Peter Sarnak. CIRM. Audiovisual resource. doi:10.24350/CIRM.V.19102003 URI : http://dx.doi.org/10.24350/CIRM.V.19102003 |
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