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Nationality
  
Canadian American

Role
  
Mathematician

Institutions
  
Fields
  

Doctoral advisor
  
Notable awards
  
Name
  
Ravi Vakil

Awards
  
Chauvenet Prize

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Born
  
February 22, 1970 (age 54) Toronto, Ontario, Canada (
1970-02-22
)

Alma mater
  
University of TorontoHarvard University

Books
  
A mathematical mosaic, Mirror Symmetry

Similar People
  
Rahul Pandharipande, Eric Zaslow, Sheldon Katz, Cumrun Vafa

Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

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Education and career

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Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University in 1997 under Joe Harris. He has since been an instructor at both Princeton University and MIT. Since the fall of 2001, he has taught at Stanford University, becoming a full professor in 2007.

Contributions

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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 over the real numbers, a result that resolves an issue mathematicians have worked on for at least two decades.

Awards and honors

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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 in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, and the André-Aisenstadt Prize from the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques at the Université de Montréal (2005).

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In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Mathematics contests

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He was a member of the Canadian team in three International Mathematical Olympiads, winning silver, gold (perfect score), 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.


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References

Ravi Vakil Wikipedia


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