Amol Aggarwal

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Amol Aggarwal (born 1993) is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research connects combinatorics and probability theory to statistical mechanics, [1] including the study of random matrices [2] and of Gibbs measures for random tessellations. [3] He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [4] [5]

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Education and career

Aggarwal graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. [6] He completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2020; his doctoral dissertation, Asymptotic Phenomena in the Six-Vertex Model, was supervised by Alexei Borodin. [7]

He joined the Columbia University mathematics department as an assistant professor in 2020, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2022, [6] before joining Stanford University as a full professor. [5]

Recognition

As a student at Saratoga High School (California), [8] Aggarwal was a 2011 finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. [9] His work in the contest concerned discrete geometry: it improved an upper bound of Zoltán Füredi on the number of unit distances that can be found in a convex polygon, a question posed in 1959 by Paul Erdős and Leo Moser, and he published it as a journal paper in 2015. [10] [11] Because of this performance, minor planet 27072 Aggarwal was named for him. [8] As an undergraduate at MIT, Aggarwal was the 2016 recipient of the AMS–MAA–SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. [12]

Aggarwal was named as a Clay Mathematics Fellow in 2020. He received the 2021 Early Career Award of the International Association of Mathematical Physics. [3] In 2022, he received both the Dubrovin Medal of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), "for contributions to integrable probability, random matrix theory, and moduli spaces", and the Rollo Davidson Prize, "for fundamental contributions to random matrix theory and integrable probability". [2]

He is an invited speaker at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians. [4]

Personal life

Aggarwal was born in 1993. [3] He is the son of Alok Aggarwal, a theoretical computer scientist and entrepreneur (one of the namesakes of the SMAWK algorithm), and of Sangeeta Aggarwal, a hematologist and oncologist, [13] both immigrants from India. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Past visiting professor Amol Aggarwal", Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, May 17, 2021, retrieved 2025-08-05
  2. 1 2 Amol Aggarwal Awarded Rollo Davidson Prize and Dubrovin Medal, Institute for Advanced Study, 2022, retrieved 2025-08-05
  3. 1 2 3 Toninelli, Fabio (August 2, 2021), The IAMP Early Career Award 2021: Amol Aggarwal (Columbia University) (PDF), International Association of Mathematical Physics, retrieved 2025-08-05
  4. 1 2 "Speakers", ICM 2026, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2025-08-05
  5. 1 2 "Amol Aggarwal", Stanford Profiles, retrieved 2025-08-05
  6. 1 2 "Meet Arts and Sciences Faculty Tenured in 2022", Office of the Provost, Columbia University, 2022, retrieved 2025-08-05
  7. ↑ Amol Aggarwal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. 1 2 (27072) Aggarwal = 1987 RD4 = 1991 TD5 = 1998 SS117, IAU Minor Planet Center, retrieved 2025-08-05
  9. 1 2 Krieger, Lisa M. (August 13, 2016), "Children of recent immigrants lead America's scientific competitions", San Jose Mercury-News, retrieved 2025-08-05
  10. ↑ Hamilton, Marianne L. (January 31, 2011), "Saratoga's Aggarwal is headed to D.C. as Intel Science finalist", San Jose Mercury-News, retrieved 2025-08-05
  11. ↑ Aggarwal, Amol (2015), "On unit distances in a convex polygon", Discrete Mathematics , 338 (3): 88–92, arXiv: 1009.2216 , doi:10.1016/j.disc.2014.10.009, MR   3291870
  12. ↑ Amol Aggarwal to receive 2016 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize, American Mathematical Society, December 7, 2015, retrieved 2025-08-05– via EurekAlert
  13. ↑ "Dr. Alok Aggarwal", Scry AI, retrieved 2025-08-05
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