Residence Los Angeles, CA Role Mathematician Nationality Romanian | Name Ciprian Manolescu | |
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Institutions UCLAColumbia UniversityClay Mathematics InstituteInstitute for Advanced Study Thesis A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg-Witten equations (2004) Similar People Peter Ozsvath, Andreas Floer, Peter B Kronheimer, Adrian Ioana, Reid W Barton | ||
Ciprian manolescu
Ciprian Manolescu (born on December 24, 1978) is a Romanian-American 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.
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- Ciprian manolescu
- Jdg 2017 ciprian manolescu homology cobordism and triangulations
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- Competitions
- Selected works
- References
Jdg 2017 ciprian manolescu homology cobordism and triangulations
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. 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.
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.
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".
Competitions
He has one of the best records ever in mathematical competitions: