Bjorn Poonen
- Chauvenet Prize (2011)
- Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
- Doob Prize (2023)
- Kirsten Eisenträger
- William A. Stein
- Bianca Viray
Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability[2] and computer science.[3] He has edited two books.[4][5]
He is the founding managing editor of the journal Algebra & Number Theory,[6] and serves also on the editorial boards of Involve: A Journal of Mathematics[7] and the A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series.[8]
Education
Poonen is a 1985 alumnus of Winchester High School in Winchester, Massachusetts. In 1989, Poonen graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Mathematics and Physics, summa cum laude. He then studied under Kenneth Alan Ribet at the University of California, Berkeley, completing a PhD there in 1994.[9]
Academic positions
Poonen held postdoctoral positions at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Princeton University and served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2008, before moving to MIT.[8] He has also held visiting positions at the Isaac Newton Institute (1998 and 2005), the Université Paris-Sud (2001), Harvard (2007), and MIT (2007).[8]
Major honors and awards
- Joseph L. Doob Prize, 2023[10]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[11]
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences: elected in 2012[12]
- Chauvenet Prize: the 2011 winner, for his article "Undecidability in number theory"[13][14]
- Miller Research Professorship – University of California Berkeley.
- David and Lucile Packard Fellowship[15]
- Sloan Research Fellowship[16]
- William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: winner in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988 (the only other four-time winners since 1938 are Don Coppersmith, Arthur Rubin, Ravi D. Vakil, Gabriel Carroll, Reid W. Barton, Daniel Kane and Brian R. Lawrence).[17]
- International Mathematical Olympiad: silver medalist in 1985.[18]
- American High School Mathematics Examination: only participant (out of 380,000) to receive a perfect score in 1985.[19]
Trivia
- Poonen co-authored a paper entitled "How to spread rumors fast".[20]
References
- ^ "Profile". MIT Mathematics. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ Amir Dembo, Qi-Man Shao, Bjorn Poonen, and Ofer Zeitouni, "Random polynomials with few or no real zeros", Journal of the American Mathematical Society 15 (2002), 857–892.
- ^ Poonen, Bjorn (1993). "The Worst Case in Shellsort and Related Algorithms". Journal of Algorithms. 15 (1). Elsevier BV: 101–124. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.138.295. doi:10.1006/jagm.1993.1032. ISSN 0196-6774.
- ^ Kedlaya, Kiran S.; Poonen, Bjorn; Vakil, Ravi (March 24, 2011). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985–2000. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-827-1.
- ^ "Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties". Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 226. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. 2004. doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-8170-8. ISBN 978-1-4612-6471-2. ISSN 0743-1643.
- ^ "Algebra & Number Theory". MSP. May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Involve". msp.org. May 2, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved January 28, 2015.
- ^ Bjorn Poonen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Joseph L. Doob Prize". American Mathematical Society. November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. November 26, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ "American Academy of Arts & Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ "Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". mathdl.maa.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ Poonen, Bjorn (March 2008), "Undecidability in Number Theory" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society: 344–350
- ^ Packard fellows in mathematics Archived April 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45, no. 6, (June–July 1998), p. 723.
- ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ "International Mathematical Olympiad". www.imo-official.org. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ American High School Mathematics Examination results, page 31
- ^ Fan, C. Kenneth; Poonen, Bjorn; Poonen, George (1997). "How to Spread Rumors Fast". Mathematics Magazine. 70 (1). Informa UK Limited: 40–42. doi:10.1080/0025570x.1997.11996496. ISSN 0025-570X.
External links
- Personal webpage
- Bjorn Poonen's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer