Ravi Damodar Vakil | |
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 Vakil in 2008 | |
| Born | February 22, 1970 Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto Harvard University |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (2014) [1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford University MIT Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Joe Harris |
Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry.
Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. [2] After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he completed a PhD in mathematics at Harvard University in 1997 under Joe Harris. [3] He has since been an instructor at both Princeton University and MIT. Since the fall of 2001, he has taught at Stanford University, [4] becoming a full professor in 2007.
Vakil is an algebraic geometer and his research work spans over enumerative geometry, topology, Gromov–Witten theory, and classical algebraic geometry. He has solved several old problems in Schubert calculus. Among other results, he proved that all Schubert problems are enumerative [5] over the real numbers, a result that resolves an issue mathematicians have worked on for at least two decades.
Vakil has received many awards, including an NSF CAREER Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, an American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, a G. de B. Robinson prize for the best paper published (2000) in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, [6] and the André-Aisenstadt Prize from the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques at the Université de Montréal (2005), and the Chauvenet Prize [1] (2014)..
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [7]
He was a member of the Canadian team in three International Mathematical Olympiads, winning silver, gold (perfect score), and gold in 1986, 1987, and 1988 respectively. He was also the fourth person to be a four-time Putnam Fellow in the history of the contest. Also, he has been the coordinator of weekly Putnam preparation seminars at Stanford. [8]
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