Akshay Venkatesh
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Akshay Venkatesh FRS (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study.[1] His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.[2]
Akshay Venkatesh | |
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Born | (1981-11-21) 21 November 1981 (age 42) New Delhi, India |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Princeton University University of Western Australia |
Known for | Mathematical Work, Former Child Prodigy |
Spouse | Sarah Paden |
Awards | Salem Prize (2007) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2008) Infosys Prize (2016) Ostrowski Prize (2017) Fields Medal (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study (2005–2006, 2018–present) Stanford University (2008–2018) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2006–2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Sarnak |
He was the first Australian to have won medals at both the International Physics Olympiad and International Mathematical Olympiad, which he did at the age of 12.[3][4]
In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory.[5][6] He is the second Australian[7] and the second person of Indian descent to win the Fields Medal.[8] He was on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2020.[9]