Nikhil Srivastava

Nikhil Srivastava
Fields Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater Union College
Yale University
Thesis Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility (2010)
Doctoral advisor Daniel Spielman[1]
Known for Kadison-Singer problem
Notable awards Pólya Prize (2014)[2]

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.

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,[3][4] a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.

He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[5]

References

  1. Nikhil Srivastava at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. SIAM: George Pólya Prize
  3. 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:1304.4132Freely accessible, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.7
  4. 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:1306.3969Freely accessible, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.8
  5. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.


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