Michael J. Larsen
Michael Jeffrey Larsen is an American mathematician, a distinguished professor of mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington.[1][2]
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Academic biography
In high school, Larsen tied with four other competitors for the top score in the 1977 International Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, winning a gold medal.[3][4] As an undergraduate mathematics student at Harvard University, Larsen became a Putnam Fellow in 1981 and 1983.[5] He graduated from Harvard in 1984,[6] and earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1988, under the supervision of Gerd Faltings.[7] After working at the Institute for Advanced Study he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and then moved to the University of Missouri in 1997.[6] He joined the Indiana University faculty in 2001.[1]
Research
Larsen is known for his research in arithmetic algebraic geometry, combinatorial group theory, combinatorics, and number theory.[1][2] He has written highly cited papers on domino tiling of Aztec diamonds,[8] topological quantum computing,[9][10] and on the representation theory of braid groups.[11]
Awards and honors
In 2013 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for "contributions to group theory, number theory, topology, and algebraic geometry".[12]
Selected publications
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References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael J. Larsen, IU News Room, March 30, 2011.
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- ↑ International Mathematical Olympiad 1977 (Belgrade, Yugoslavia) Individual Scores, Joseph Myers, polyomino.org.uk, retrieved 2012-08-16.
- ↑ The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2012-08-16.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Member biography, Indiana U. Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors, retrieved 2012-08-16.
- ↑ Michael Jeffrey Larsen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Elkies et al. (1992).
- ↑ Freedman, Larsen & Wang (2002a); Freedman et al. (2003).
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- ↑ Freedman, Larsen & Wang (2002a).
- ↑ 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-04.
External links
- Home page at Indiana University
- Pages with broken file links
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Putnam Fellows
- Harvard University alumni
- Princeton University alumni, 1980–89
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- University of Missouri faculty
- Indiana University faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- International Mathematical Olympiad participants
