Institute For Advanced Study Appoints Vladimir Voevodsky To Faculty

The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Vladimir Voevodsky as Professor in the School of Mathematics.

Voevodsky, whose field within mathematics is algebraic geometry, is known for his work in the homology theory of schemes, algebraic K-theory, and interrelations between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. He has been concerned with a synthesis of algebraic geometry and homotopy theory, two major branches of modern mathematics.

"Vovoedsky is a highly talented mathematician who has tackled the most difficult problems in abstract algebraic geometry," says Phillip A. Griffiths, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. "His research has influenced the development of algebraic geometry and topology, and led to a solution of several outstanding problems.

"We are delighted to have a young mathematician of his originality and creativity join the faculty of our School of Mathematics."

Voevodsky earned his B.S. in mathematics at Moscow University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University in 1992. After a postdoctoral year as a member in the Institute’s School of Mathematics, he spent three years at Harvard University as a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany, in 1996-97. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1996. He has been a member in the Institute’s School of Mathematics since 1998.

Voevodsky was a Sloan Fellow in 1996-98, and has twice received grants from the National Science Foundation. He won a Clay Prize Fellowship in 1999 and 2000.

He is coauthor (with A. Suslin and E.M. Friedlander) of Cycles, Transfers and Motivic Homology Theories (Princeton University Press, 2000).

The Institute for Advanced Study is a private, independent center founded in 1930 to support advanced scholarship and fundamental research across a wide range of disciplines. Over the past 70 years it has drawn to New Jersey some of the best known and most accomplished scholars of the 20th century. It is made up of four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science, each with a small permanent faculty of distinguished scholars. Approximately 180 annually-appointed members at different stages in their careers, from younger postdoctoral scholars to more senior researchers, come to the Institute each year. Members are selected competitively and come from more than a hundred higher education institutions in 20 to 30 countries. More information about the Institute is available at http://www.ias.edu.