Svetlana Jitomirskaya
| Svetlana Jitomirskaya | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 4, 1966 Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Thesis | Spectral and Statistical Properties of Lattice Hamiltonians (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Sinai |
| Known for | Ten martini problem |
| Notable awards | Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2005) |
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya (born June 4, 1966) is a Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.[1][2]
Jitomirskaya was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Both her mother, Valentina Borok, and her father Yakov Zhitomirskii were professors of mathematics.[1]
Her undergraduate studies where at Moscow State University, where she was a student of, among others, Vladimir Arnold and Yakov Sinai.[1]
She obtained her Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1991 under the supervision of Yakov Sinai.[3] She joined the mathematics department at the University of California, Irvine in 1991 as a lecturer, and became an assistant professor there in 1994 and a full professor in 2000.[2]
Honours
In 2005, she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, "for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization".[4]
She was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Beijing.[5]
She received a Sloan Fellowship in 1996.[6]
Selected publications
- Jitomirskaya, Svetlana Ya. (1999), "Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 150 (3): 1159–1175, doi:10.2307/121066, MR 1740982.
- Avila, Artur; Jitomirskaya, Svetlana (2009), "The Ten Martini Problem", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 170 (1): 303–342, doi:10.4007/annals.2009.170.303, MR 2521117.
- Jitomirskaya, Svetlana; Last, Yoram (1999), "Power-law subordinacy and singular spectra. I. Half-line operators", Acta Mathematica, 183 (2): 171–189, doi:10.1007/BF02392827, MR 1738043.
References
- 1 2 3 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Svetlana Jitomirskaya", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- 1 2 Jitomirskaya's CV
- ↑ Svetlana Jitomirskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "2005 Satter Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 52 (4): 447–448, April 2005.
- ↑ http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php
- ↑ http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Baction%5D=list&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Bcontroller%5D=Fellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee
External links
- Home page of Svetlana Jitomirskaya
- Riddle, Larry (January 10, 2014), "Svetlana Jitomirskaya", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2015-10-22.
- UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Award for Research 2004–2005 at the Wayback Machine (archived September 3, 2004)