Igor Pak
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Pak is an Associate Editor for the journal Discrete Mathematics.[1] He gave a Fejes Tóth Lecture at the University of Calgary in February 2009.[2]
In 2018, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
Background
Pak went to Moscow High School № 57. After graduating, he worked for a year at Bank Menatep.
He did his undergraduate studies at Moscow State University. He was a PhD student of Persi Diaconis at Harvard University, where he received a doctorate in Mathematics in 1997, with a thesis titled Random Walks on Groups: Strong Uniform Time Approach.[3] Afterwards, he worked with László Lovász as a postdoc at Yale University. He was a fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a long-term visitor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
References
External links
- Personal site.
- List of published papers, with abstracts.
- MathSciNet: "Items authored by Pak, Igor."Template:Dead link
- DBLP: Igor Pak.
- ↑ Editorial Board, Discrete Mathematics, Elsevier. Accessed February 10, 2010
- ↑ Fejes Tóth Lecture Template:Webarchive, Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry, University of Calgary. Accessed February 10, 2010
- ↑ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectTemplate:EditAtWikidata
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Mathematicians from Moscow
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Combinatorialists
- Moscow State University alumni
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- Harvard University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
- University of Minnesota faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty