Bjorn Poonen

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Bjorn Poonen
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Poonen at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born (1968-07-27) July 27, 1968 (age 57)
Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Arithmetic geometry
Institutions MIT
Thesis The Mordell-Weil theorem, rigidity, and pairings for Drinfeld modules  (1994)
Doctoral advisor Kenneth Alan Ribet
Doctoral students
Website math.mit.edu/~poonen/

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability [2] and computer science. [3] He has edited two books. [4] [5]

Contents

He is the founding managing editor of the journal Algebra & Number Theory , [6] and serves also on the editorial boards of Involve: A Journal of Mathematics [7] and the A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series. [8]

Early life and education

Poonen was born on July 27, 1968 in Boston to an Indian father and Norwegian-American mother. [9] He attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics while a student at Winchester High School in Winchester, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1985. [10] In 1989, Poonen graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Mathematics and Physics, summa cum laude. He then studied under Kenneth Alan Ribet at the University of California, Berkeley, completing a PhD there in 1994. [11]

Academic positions

Poonen held postdoctoral positions at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Princeton University and served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2008, before moving to MIT. [8] He has also held visiting positions at the Isaac Newton Institute (1998 and 2005), the Université Paris-Sud (2001), Harvard (2007), and MIT (2007). [8]

Major honors and awards

Trivia

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". MIT Mathematics. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  2. ↑ Amir Dembo, Qi-Man Shao, Bjorn Poonen, and Ofer Zeitouni, "Random polynomials with few or no real zeros", Journal of the American Mathematical Society 15 (2002), 857–892.
  3. ↑ Poonen, Bjorn (1993). "The Worst Case in Shellsort and Related Algorithms". Journal of Algorithms. 15 (1). Elsevier BV: 101–124. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.138.295 . doi:10.1006/jagm.1993.1032. ISSN   0196-6774.
  4. ↑ Kedlaya, Kiran S.; Poonen, Bjorn; Vakil, Ravi (March 24, 2011). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985–2000. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN   978-0-88385-827-1.
  5. ↑ "Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties". Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 226. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. 2004. doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-8170-8. ISBN   978-1-4612-6471-2. ISSN   0743-1643.
  6. ↑ "Algebra & Number Theory". MSP. May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Involve". msp.org. May 2, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  8. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved January 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Math Prof Receives Packard Fellowship". Office of Public Affairs, UC Berkeley. November 18, 1998.
  10. ↑ Page, Warren (1985). "An Interview with the 1985 USA Team to the International Mathematical Olympiad". The College Mathematics Journal. 16 (5). Informa UK Limited: 336–360. doi:10.1080/07468342.1985.11972907. ISSN   0746-8342.
  11. ↑ Bjorn Poonen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  12. ↑ "Joseph L. Doob Prize". American Mathematical Society. November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  14. ↑ "American Academy of Arts & Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". mathdl.maa.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  16. ↑ Poonen, Bjorn (March 2008), "Undecidability in Number Theory" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society: 344–350
  17. ↑ Packard fellows in mathematics Archived April 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45, no. 6, (June–July 1998), p. 723.
  19. ↑ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  20. ↑ "International Mathematical Olympiad". www.imo-official.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  21. ↑ American High School Mathematics Examination results, page 31
  22. ↑ Fan, C. Kenneth; Poonen, Bjorn; Poonen, George (1997). "How to Spread Rumors Fast". Mathematics Magazine. 70 (1). Informa UK Limited: 40–42. doi:10.1080/0025570x.1997.11996496. ISSN   0025-570X.
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