Benny Sudakov

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Benny Sudakov
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Benny Sudakov in 2011
BornOctober 1969
Citizenship Israel
Alma mater Tbilisi State University
Tel Aviv University
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions UCLA
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
ETH Zurich
Thesis Extremal Problems in Probabilistic Combinatorics and Their Algorithmic Aspects (1999)
Doctoral advisor Noga Alon
Doctoral students Jacob Fox
Hao Huang
Peter Keevash
Po-Shen Loh

Benny Sudakov (born October 1969) [1] is an Israeli mathematician, who works mainly on extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.

He was born in Tbilissi, Georgia, [1] and completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990. [2] After emigrating to Israel, he received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1999, under the supervision of Noga Alon. [3] From 1999 until 2002 he held a Veblen Research Instructorship, [4] a joint position between Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Until 2007 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. Until 2014, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. [2] In July 2013 Sudakov joined ETH Zurich as a professor. [5]

Sudakov has broad interests within the field of combinatorics, having written papers on extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graphs, and positional games. [2]

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [6]

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 at Hyderabad, on the topic of "Combinatorics". [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Biographies of Candidates 2012" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 59 (8): 1140, 2012
  2. 1 2 3 "Benny Sudakov's CV" (PDF).
  3. Benny Sudakov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "IAS scholar information site". 9 December 2019.
  5. Department of Mathematics (September 27, 2012). "ETH Zurich appoints Benjamin Sudakov". www.math.ethz.ch. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.
  7. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.