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Sergey Fomin

Russian American mathematician

Field	Value
name	Sergey Fomin
birth_date
birth_place	Saint Petersburg, Russia
nationality	American
fields	Mathematics
workplaces	Michigan
MIT (1992–2000)
alma_mater	Saint Petersburg State University (Ph.D., M.Sc)
thesis_title	Rates of Convergence in Multidimensional Central Limit Theorem
thesis_year	1982
doctoral_advisor	Anatoly Vershik
Leonid Osipov
awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (2018)
known_for	Cluster algebras

MIT (1992–2000) Leonid Osipov

Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin (Сергей Владимирович Фомин) (born 16 February 1958 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with algebra, geometry, and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky, he introduced cluster algebras.

Biography

Fomin received his M.Sc. in 1979 and his Ph.D. in 1982 from St. Petersburg State University under the direction of Anatoly Vershik and Leonid Osipov. Previous to his appointment at the University of Michigan, he held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1992 to 2000, at the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and at the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. Sergey Fomin studied at the 45th Physics-Mathematics School and later taught mathematics there.

Research

Fomin's contributions include

Discovery (with A. Zelevinsky) of cluster algebras.
Work (jointly with A. Berenstein and A. Zelevinsky) on total positivity.
Work (with A. Zelevinsky) on the Laurent phenomenon, including its applications to Somos sequences.

Awards and honors

Simons Fellow (2019)
Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2018).
Invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Hyderabad, 2010).
Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Fellow (2012) of the American Mathematical Society.
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023.

Selected publications

References

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"Буря в пустыне Математик Сергей Фомин оценил попытки властей спасти науку".
[https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Simons Fellows in Mathematics]
[http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=3803 2018 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in Discrete Mathematics/Logic to Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky]
"ICM'10 invited speakers".
"List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society".
(2023). "New members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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