Alexander Barvinok | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | St. Petersburg State University (Ph.D) |
Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Michigan (1994–) |
Thesis | Combinatorial Theory of Polytopes with Symmetry and its Applications to Combinatorial Optimization Problems (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik |
Alexander I. Barvinok (born March 27, 1963) is a Russian American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan. [1]
Barvinok received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 1988 under the supervision of Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik. [2]
In 1999, Barvinok received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Bill Clinton. [3]
Barvinok gave an invited talk at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid. [4]
In 2012, Barvinok became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [5]
In 2023, Barvinok left the American Mathematical Society by refusing to renew his membership in protest of its non-opposition to "DEI statements" and "compelled language", referencing his experiences in the Soviet Union. [6]