Alexei Borodin
{{Short description|Russian mathematician}}
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| birth_place = Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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| nationality = Russian
| fields = Mathematician
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| doctoral_advisor = Alexandre Kirillov, Grigori Olshanski
| thesis_title = Harmonic analysis on the infinite symmetric group
| thesis_year = 2001
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- EMS Prize (2008)
- Henri Poincaré Prize (2015)
- Loève Prize (2015)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
- Fermat Prize (2019)
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Alexei Mikhailovich Borodin ({{langx|ru|Алексе́й Михайлович Бороди́н}}; born June 30, 1975) is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.http://math.mit.edu/people/profile?pid=1222 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123164931/http://math.mit.edu/people/profile?pid=1222 |date=2013-01-23 }}, MIT, retrieved 2011-03-04.
Research
His research concerns asymptotic representation theory, relations with random matrices and integrable systems, and the difference equation formulation of monodromy.
Education and career
Borodin was born in Donetsk, the son of Donetsk State University mathematics professor Mikhail Borodin.{{citation|url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2012/profile-borodin-0323|title=On the hunt for mathematical beauty: Alexei Borodin uses sophisticated tools to extract information from large groups|date=March 23, 2012|first=Helen|last=Knight|journal=MIT News}}.
He competed for Ukraine in the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal there.{{IMO results|id=19917}}
In the same year, he began studying mathematics at Moscow State University, and (because of the collapse of the Soviet Union) was forced to choose between Ukrainian and Russian citizenship, deciding at that time to be Russian. He graduated from Moscow State in 1997 and received M.S.E. in computers and information science and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.{{mathgenealogy|name=Alexei Borodin|id=59763}}.
He was a Clay Research Fellow and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[http://www.claymath.org/fas/research_fellows/Borodin/CV.pdf Curriculum vitae from 2002], Clay Mathematics Institute, retrieved 2010-12-05.
Next, he taught at the California Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2010, before moving to MIT. In 2016–2017 he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.{{cite web|title=Alexei Borodin|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/alexei-borodin|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|accessdate=15 July 2017|language=en}}
Awards and honors
In 2008, Borodin won the European Mathematical Society Prize, one of ten prizes awarded every four years for excellence by a young mathematics researcher.{{citation|url=http://www.5ecm.nl/prizewinnersbook.pdf|title=EMS Prizes and Felix Klein Prize: Citations and Prize Winner's Lectures|publisher=5th European Congress of Mathematicians|year=2008|access-date=2010-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201144012/http://5ecm.nl/prizewinnersbook.pdf|archive-date=2015-02-01|url-status=dead}}.
In 2010, he was one of four Caltech faculty invited to present their work at the International Congress of Mathematicians.{{citation|url=http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display?story_id=36102|title=Four from Caltech Invited to Key Conference|date=May 5, 2009|journal=Caltech Today}}. In 2015 he won the Loève Prize{{citation|url=http://bulletin.imstat.org/2015/10/loeve-prize-2/|title=Alexei Borodin awarded 2015 Loève Prize|magazine=IMS Bulletin|date=October 2, 2015}}. and the Henri Poincaré Prize.{{citation|url=https://news.mit.edu/2015/alexei-borodin-receives-henri-poincar%C3%A9-prize-0928|title=Alexei Borodin receives the 2015 Henri Poincaré Prize|magazine=MIT News|date=September 28, 2015|first=Helen|last=Knight}}. In 2018 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,{{citation|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/alexei-borodin|title=Alexei Borodin|work=Member Directory|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=March 8, 2020}} and in 2019 he was awarded the Fermat Prize.{{citation|url=https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/spip.php?article950 |title=Prix Fermat 2019|date=November 27, 2019}}
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