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Wojciech Samotij

{{short description|Polish mathematician}}

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| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = Tel Aviv University

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| known_for = combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory, graph theory

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Wojciech Samotij (Polish: {{IPAc-pl|'|w|o|j|ć|e|ch|-|s|a|'|m|o|t|i|j}}) is a Polish mathematician and a full professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Tel Aviv University. He is known for his work in combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory and graph theory.

Education and career

He studied at the University of Wrocław where in 2007 he obtained his Master of Science degrees in mathematics and computer science. He received his PhD in 2011 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the basis of his dissertation titled Extremal Problems In Pseudo-random Graphs And Asymptotic Enumeration and written under the supervision of József Balogh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=149337|title=Wojciech Samotij - The Mathematics Genealogy Project|website=www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu|access-date=2019-04-26}}

Between 2010 and 2014, he was a fellow of the Trinity College, Cambridge at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~samotij/|title=Wojciech Samotij|access-date=22 April 2020}} He published his scientific work in such journals as Random Structures & Algorithms, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, or Israel Journal of Mathematics.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~samotij/publications.html|title=Wojciech Samotij – publications|access-date=26 September 2021}}

Awards

He received the 2013 Kuratowski Prize conferred jointly by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Mathematical Society to young mathematicians under the age of 30. The same year, he won the 2013 European Prize in Combinatorics.{{cite web |title=The European Prize in Combinatorics |url=http://www.eurocomb2013.it/index.php?pg=webshow&id=10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114020557/http://www.eurocomb2013.it/index.php?pg=webshow&id=10 |archive-date=2013-11-14}} Samotij is also the recipient of the 2016 George Pólya Prize{{cite web|url=http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/polyacomb.php|title=George Pólya Prize in Combinatorics}} and the 2022 Erdős Prize.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imu.org.il/erdos-prize |title=Erdős prize |website=imu.org.il |access-date=1 November 2023}} In 2024 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research jointly with József Balogh and Robert Morris.[http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7258 Leroy P. Steele Prize 2024]

Selected publications

| title=The typical structure of sparse K_{r+1}-free graphs

| journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

| volume=368

| pages=6439–6485

| date=2016

| doi=10.1090/tran/6552

| arxiv=1307.5967| last1=Balogh

| first1=József

| last2=Morris

| first2=Robert

| last3=Samotij

| first3=Wojciech

| last4=Warnke

| first4=Lutz

| s2cid=17878868

}}

| title=Independent sets in hypergraphs

| journal=Journal of the American Mathematical Society

| volume=28

| pages=669–709

| date=2015

| doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00816-X | doi-access=free

| arxiv=1204.6530| last1=Balogh

| first1=József

| last2=Morris

| first2=Robert

| last3=Samotij

| first3=Wojciech

| issue=3

}}

| title=A refinement of the Cameron-Erdős conjecture

| journal=Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

| volume=108

| issue=1

| pages=44–72

| date=January 2014

| doi=10.1112/plms/pdt033

| arxiv=1202.5200| last1=Alon

| first1=Noga

| last2=Balogh

| first2=József

| last3=Morris

| first3=Robert

| last4=Samotij

| first4=Wojciech

| s2cid=1536592

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| title=Counting sum-free sets in Abelian groups

| journal=Israel Journal of Mathematics

| volume=199

| pages=309–344

| date=January 2014

| doi=10.1007/s11856-013-0067-y | doi-access=free

| arxiv=1201.6654| last1=Alon

| first1=Noga

| last2=Balogh

| first2=József

| last3=Morris

| first3=Robert

| last4=Samotij

| first4=Wojciech

}}

  • with Ron Peled: {{citation

| title=Odd cutsets and the hard-core model on \mathbb{Z}^d

| journal=Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques

| volume=50

| issue=3

| pages=975–998

| date=August 2014

| doi=10.1214/12-AIHP535

| arxiv=1106.3594| last1=Peled

| first1=Ron

| last2=Samotij

| first2=Wojciech

}}

| title=The number of K_{s,t}-free graphs

| journal=Journal of the London Mathematical Society

| volume=83

| issue=2

| date=April 2011

| pages=368–388

| doi=10.1112/jlms/jdq086| last1=Balogh

| first1=József

| last2=Samotij

| first2=Wojciech

| s2cid=7455668

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See also

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Category:Living people

Category:Polish academics

Category:Polish mathematicians

Category:Combinatorialists

Category:Academic staff of Tel Aviv University

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:University of Wrocław alumni

Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge

Category:Erdős Prize recipients

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