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Pardon Receives Waterman Award Letter from the Chair Spring 2017 Issue 6 Department of Mathematics Princeton University Letter From the Chair Congratula- others went to Assistant Profes- tions to our 28 sors Nicholas Sheridan and Han Pardon Receives undergraduate Liu (ORFE). math majors Waterman Award Some highlights among faculty of the class of Professor John 2016 and to recognitions include Charlie Fef- ferman *69 winning the Wolf Pardon '11 has the 8 graduate received a Na- students who Prize in Mathematics, the fourth current faculty member and the tional Science are now *16. Foundation About half of sixth Princeton alum to do so. John Pardon ’11 won the NSF’s Alan T. Water- the undergrads man Award, went off to grad Alan T. Waterman Award. Also, Professor Allan Sly was awarded which is the na- school, others found positions in tion's highest finance and industry and a few the Doeblin Prize and Assistant honor for early- followed other paths including Professors Adam Marcus and career scientists the Korean army. We look for- Vlad Vicol were awarded NSF and engineers. ward to hearing both from and CAREER grants. See page 4 The prize car- about you in the future. for a more complete list of major ries a five-year, $1 million grant. recognitions. We are thrilled that John Pardon ’11 Pardon was recognized for "rev- and Allan Sly joined the De- Our beloved Scott Kenney re- tired following 30+ years of ser- olutionary, groundbreaking re- partment as professors, Tatyana sults in geometry and topology" Shcherbyna as an assistant pro- vice, including 25 years as De- that "have extended the power fessor, and Otis Chodosh, Ziyang partment Manager followed by of tools of geometric analysis to Gao, Ilya Khayutin, Francesco 5 years as Special Projects Man- solve deep problems in real and Lin, Evita Nestoridi, and Kon- ager. In all his roles he was uni- complex geometry, topology, and stantin Tikhomirov as instruc- formly welcoming, approachable dynamical systems," according to tors and that Emmanuel Abbe and totally devoted to the De- the prize citation. He was select- (PACM, EE) and Ramon van partment. To many of us Scott ed along with Baratunde Cola, an Handel (ORFE) became Associ- was the face of the Math Depart- associate professor of mechanical ated Faculty. They have all made ment. He will be sorely missed. engineering at Georgia Tech. a difference to the Department. Continued on next page... Continued on page 14... Congratulations to our 2nd place Putnam team; Eric Schneider, Alex Song, and Xiaoyu Xu and to Eric Schneider and Murilo Zanarella who both earned N1 distinction. All our finishing grad students did very well, though some chose new directions. Four of this year’s twenty Sloan Foun- dation Fellowship winners in mathematics went to our former grad students Wei Ho *09, Chi Li *12, Jonathan Luk *12, and Aaron Pixton ’08 *13, and two Provost David Lee, President Christopher Eisgruber, and Dean of the Faculty Debra Prentice congratulated Pardon at a special tea in his honor. Faculty Appointments Professor John Pardon From the Chair John Pardon ’11 returned to Princeton as a profes- Continued from previous page... sor this year, having completed his Ph.D. at Stanford I must report the loss of three long- University in 2015, where he was then appointed as time faculty: Professor Emeritus an assistant professor. John C. Moore, Professor Emeri- tus Gerard Washnitzer *50, and As an undergraduate math major at Princeton, Professor John Mather *67. John Pardon’s groundbreaking solution to Gromov’s knot- Mather’s untimely passing cut distortion problem was published in the Annals of short a very active research career. Mathematics and earned him the 2012 Morgan Prize. Please read the brief biographies on the following pages. Pardon continues to work on long-standing prob- The primary research goal of lems. His proof of the 3-dimensional Hilbert-Smith conjecture in 2013 Fine Hall is to address the most was the first general result on that venerable problem since the 2-di- interesting, fundamental and mensional solution more than 60 years earlier. challenging mathematical prob- lems, find beauty and structure His groundbreaking achievements were recognized this April when he where it was not known to ex- received the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, ist and to find new mathemati- the nation’s highest honor for early-career scientists. cal directions. Whether we are undergrads writing senior the- "My main personal motivation to work on problems in mathematics is ses, graduate students, postdocs, aesthetic," Pardon has said. "The most satisfying part of doing math- instructors, assistant profes- ematics is to find a beautiful proof or a beautiful theorem. I can only sors or long time senior faculty, hope that I have succeeded in a small way in this respect." we all share this common goal. Through our teaching and advis- Pardon is also an accomplished cellist and has joined the department’s ing, our faculty strives to trans- growing musical ensemble. mit their excitement, curiosity and understanding to our stu- Professor Allan Sly dents and they in turn enliven Fine Hall with their energy and Allan Sly joined the department this fall as a pro- enthusiasm. We particularly val- fessor, coming to us from the Department of Statis- ue independence, so while we are tics at the University of California, Berkeley. extremely gratified when they become prominent researchers Sly is an expert in discrete probability theory and and outstanding teachers we are its applications, focusing on the analysis of the mix- very happy when they passion- ing times of Markov chains—particularly the Glau- ately follow their own direction, ber dynamics and the role phase transitions play in even when it takes them outside the computational complexity—and in probabilis- of academic mathematics. tic models more generally. We greatly value and encourage Sly has reeived numerous recognitions for his excellent teaching. The Depart- work, including the Wolfgang Doeblin Prize (2016), a Faculty Early ment bestowed graduate stu- Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science dent teaching awards to Anibal Foundation (2014–2019), the Rollo Davidson Prize (2013), and a Velozo and Charles Stibitz, and Sloan Fellowship in mathematical sciences (2012). junior faculty teaching awards to Assistant Professors Nicholas Before joining the faculty at Princeton, he was an assistant profes- Sheridan and Vlad Vicol. Our sor (2011–2015) and associate professor (2015–2016) at Berkeley, teaching was also recognized where he also received his Ph.D. in 2009 under the supervision of outside of Fine Hall. We are Elchanan Mossel. He did his postdoctoral work in the theory group very proud that faculty Christine at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Taylor and Hansheng Diao were Continued on page 12... Page 2 Faculty Appointments Otis Chodosh Ziyang Gao Veblen Research Instructor Instructor Geometrical Analysis and PDEs Arithmetic Geometry Otis Chodosh joins the department Ziyang Gao completed his Ph.D. after a year as a Research Fellow at in 2014 at Université Paris-Sud Cambridge University. He completed Orsay and Leiden University, his graduate and undergraduate stud- Netherlands. He received the ies at Stanford, receiving his Ph.D. 2015 Stieltjes Prize from the in 2015. Otis was an NSF Graduate Dutch Research School in Math- Research Fellow at Stanford, and received that institution's ematics, awarded anually for the best Ph.D. thesis. Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching. After completing his doctorate, Ziyang spent time at CNRS in Paris and at the Institute for Advanced Ilya Khayutin Study in Princeton before coming to Princeton. Veblen Research Instructor Ergodic Theory, Number Theory Francesco Lin Veblen Research Instructor Ilya Khayutin completed his un- Gauge Theory, Topology dergraduate and graduate degrees at Hebrew University in 2006 and Francesco Lin received his 2016, respectively. In 2015 Ilya re- Ph.D. from MIT in 2016 af- ceived the Springer Prize for Doc- ter his undergraduate studies toral Students, in 2014 the Zocho- at Università di Pisa in 2012. vitzky Prize for Excellence in Research, and in 2008 Francesco received the Johnson the Wolf Scholarship for an Excellent Master's Thesis. Prize at MIT for best published research by a graduate student, the MIT Praecis Presidential Fellowship, and the St. John's College Evita Nestoridi (Oxford) exchange scholarship. Instructor Combinatorics, Probability Tatyana Shcherbyna Evita Nestoridi received her Assistant Professor Ph.D. from Stanford in 2016 Analysis, Mathematical Physics and her bachelor's degree from the National and Kapodistrian Tatyana Shcherbyna works University of Athens, Greece in in random matrix theory and 2011. At Stanford she received statistical mechanics. Before the Centennial Teaching Award and the Colleen and coming to Princeton she was a Robert D. Haas Graduate Fellowship. member at the Institute for Ad- vanced Study from 2015–2016 Konstantin Tikhomirov and 2012–2013, and a postdoc- Instructor toral fellow at St. Petersburg State University. Discrete Mathematics Tatyana received her Ph.D. in 2012 from the In- After his undergraduate work at stitute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkiv, Samara State University in Rus- Ukraine and her bachelor's degree in 2007 sia, Konstantin moved to the Uni- from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, versity of Alberta, where he com- Ukraine. pleted his Ph.D. in 2016. There he received numerous prizes and fel- She received the President of Ukraine award for lowships, including the Faculty of Science Dissertation young scientists (2011–2012), the JSC "Gazprom Award, and the Dean's Excellence Award. In 2010 he Neft" award for postdoctoral fellows (2014), and also received the Young Scientists Award from the Rus- the Ahiezer's fond prize (2009). sian Government. Page 3 Honors and Awards Michael Aizenman Peter Sarnak NSF CAREER Grants has been elected received an hon- Assistant Professors Adam Mar- a foreign mem- ary degree from cus and Vlad Vicol were award- ber of Academia the University ed NSF CAREER grants.
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