Mathematician Nikhil Srivastava Has Been Selected for the Inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize || Some Information about the Recipients and the Prize || 2021 ||

MATHEMATICIAN NIKHIL SRIVASTAVA HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CIPRIAN FOIAS PRIZE :

      Renowned Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize. He has been jointly nominated by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for this award for "highly original work" in Operator Theory.

      Along with Professor Srivastava, two other recipients are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. American Adam Wade Marcus holds the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis in the Mathematics Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Daniel Alan Spielman is a Sterling Professor of Computer Science, a professor of statistics and data science, and a professor of mathematics. According to a press release, the award recognizes the "highly original work" of those who introduce and develop methods for explaining the characteristic polynomials of matrices. The three recipients would like to receive this award on behalf of many people, as the work of many people has contributed to the resolution of the Kadison-Singer problem. The award will be presented to Prof. Srivastava and his colleagues at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle on 5 January 2022. This meeting was described as "the largest mathematics gathering in the world". The award which is presented every three years, was established in 2020 in memory of Ciprian Foias. Contextually, Foias was an influential scholar of Operator Theory and fluid mechanics. The prize money is currently $5,000.

SPECIAL NOTES FOR ASPIRANTS :

• Nikhil Srivastava was born in New Delhi.

• He is an associate professor at the University of California.

• In 2013, he, along with his two colleagues Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman, provided a positive solution to the Kadison-Singer problem.

• He received the Pólya Prize in 2014.

• He received the Michael and Sheila Held Prize in 2021.