Summary
Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
Nikhil Srivastava | |
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| Alma mater | Union College Yale University |
| Known for | Kadison-Singer problem |
| Awards | Pólya Prize (2014)[1] Michael and Sheila Held Prize (2021)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Spielman[3] |
| Website | math |
Early life and education edit
Nikhil Srivastava was born New Delhi, India. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science in 2005. He received a PhD in computer science from Yale University in 2010 (his dissertation was called "Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility").
Awards edit
In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem,[4][5] a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.
He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[6] He jointly won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs.[1]
In 2022 The Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory was awarded to Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Srivastava for their notable work in Operator Theory that was published in the preceding six years.[7][8]
References edit
- ^ SIAM: George Pólya Prize
- ^ "National Academy of Sciences - Michael and Sheila Prize".
- ^ Nikhil Srivastava at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing families I: Bipartite Ramanujan graphs of all degrees", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 307–325, arXiv:1304.4132, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.7
- ^ Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison–Singer problem", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 327–350, arXiv:1306.3969, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.8, S2CID 17580893
- ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
- ^ "Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ PTI (2021-12-04). "Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava among 3 selected for inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-01-05.