Alexander Gamburd

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Alexander Gamburd
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.)
Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Known for Arithmetic combinatorics
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions CUNY Graduate Center
Thesis "On Spectral Gap for Infinite Index "Congruence" Subgroups of SL(sub 2)(Z)" (1999)
Doctoral advisor Peter Sarnak

Alexander Gamburd is a mathematician at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York known for his work in spectral problems in number theory, probability, and Arithmetic combinatorics. He is a Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center. [1]

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Life and career

Gamburd earned his B.S degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. [2] [3] He received his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from Princeton University, [4] where his advisor was Peter Sarnak. In 2004, Gamburd became assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was promoted to full professor in 2008. [3] He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2005 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2008. [5] In 2011, Gamburd joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center as Presidential Professor of Mathematics. [1]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

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