Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava has been an assistant professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley since 2015. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
Nikhil Srivastav | |
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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 Scientist Mathematician |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Spielman[3] |
Website | https://math.berkeley.edu/~nikhil/ |
Education
Nikhil Srivastava 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
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.
References
- 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.