Ciprian Manolescu
| Ciprian Manolescu | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
December 24, 1978 Alexandria, Romania |
| Residence | Los Angeles, CA |
| Nationality | Romanian, American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
UCLA Columbia University Clay Mathematics Institute Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (BA 2001; PhD 2004) |
| Thesis | A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg-Witten equations (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter B. Kronheimer[1] |
| Known for |
Hauptvermutung Seiberg–Witten Floer theory |
| Notable awards |
EMS Prize (2012) Morgan Prize (2002) |
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Website www | |
Ciprian Manolescu (born on December 24, 1978) is a Romanian-American[2] mathematician, working in gauge theory, symplectic geometry, and low-dimensional topology. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
He completed his first eight classes at School no. 11 Mihai Eminescu and his secondary education at Ion Brătianu High School in Piteşti. He did his undergrad and Ph.D. at Harvard University under the direction of Peter B. Kronheimer, and became a teaching fellow in the Math 55 undergraduate course.[3] He was the winner of the Morgan Prize, awarded jointly by AMS-MAA-SIAM, in 2002. His undergraduate thesis was on Finite dimensional approximation in Seiberg–Witten theory, and his Ph.D. thesis topic was A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg–Witten equations.
In early 2013 he released a paper detailing a disproof of the Triangulation Conjecture for manifolds of dimension 5 and higher.[4]
Awards and honors
He was among the handful of recipients of the Clay Research Fellowship (2004–2008).
In 2012 he was awarded one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society for his work on low-dimensional topology, and particularly for his role in the development of combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology.[5]
He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to Floer homology and the topology of manifolds".[6]
Competitions
He has one of the best records ever in mathematical competitions:
- He holds the sole distinction of writing three perfect papers at the International Mathematical Olympiad: Toronto, Canada (1995); Bombay, India (1996); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1997).[7]
- He placed in the top 5 on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for college undergraduates in 1997, 1998, and 2000.[8]
Selected works
- Manolescu, Ciprian (2016). "Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg–Witten Floer homology and the Triangulation Conjecture". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 29: 147–176. doi:10.1090/jams829.
- Manolescu, Ciprian; Ozsváth, Peter; Sarkar, Sucharit (2009). "A Combinatorial Description of Knot Floer Homology". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 169 (2): 633–660. doi:10.4007/annals.2009.169.633.
- Lipshitz, Robert; Manolescu, Ciprian; Wang, Jiajun (2008). "Combinatorial cobordism maps in hat Heegaard Floer theory". Duke Math. J. 145 (2): 207–247. doi:10.1215/00127094-2008-050.
References
- ↑ Ciprian Manolescu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ http://www.math.ucla.edu/~cm/cv.pdf
- ↑ https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-take-Harvards-Math-55
- ↑ Hartnett, Kevin (13 January 2015), "A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut", Quanta Magazine
- ↑ http://www.6ecm.pl/
- ↑ 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-11-06.
- ↑ https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=3789
- ↑ http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners
External links
- Manolescu's UCLA Page
- The Clay Mathematics Institute page
- Ciprian Manolescu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Ciprian Manolescu's results". International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Google Scholar Profile