Alexander Gamburd is a mathematician at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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known for his work in spectral problems in
number theory,
probability, and
Arithmetic combinatorics. He is a Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Life and career
Gamburd earned his B.S degree in mathematics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
He received his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from
Princeton University, where his advisor was
Peter Sarnak. In 2004, Gamburd became assistant professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Santa Cruz and was promoted to full professor in 2008.
He was a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study from 2005 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2008.
[ ] In 2011, Gamburd joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center as Presidential Professor of Mathematics.
Awards and honors
*In 2007, Gamburd received a
Sloan Research Fellowship.
[ ]
*In 2007, he received an
NSF CAREER Award
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.
*In 2008, he won a
Presidential Early Career Award
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Selected publications
*Bourgain, Jean; Gamburd, Alexander. "Uniform expansion bounds for Cayley graphs of SL
2(F
p)". ''
Annals of Mathematics'' 167 (2008), pages 625-642
MR 2415383*Breuillard, Emmanuel; Gamburd, Alexander. "Strong uniform expansion in SL(2,p)". ''
Geometric and Functional Analysis'' 20 (2010), number 5, pages 1201-1209
MR 2746951*Bourgain, Jean; Gamburd, Alexander; Sarnak, Peter. "Generalization of Selberg's 3/16 theorem and affine sieve". ''
Acta Mathematica
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'' 207 (2011), number 2, pages 255–290
MR 2892611*Bourgain, Jean; Gamburd, Alexander; Sarnak, Peter. "Markoff triples and strong approximation". ''
Comptes Rendus Mathématique.
Académie des Sciences. Paris'' 354 (2016), number 2, pages 131-135
MR 3456887
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Princeton University alumni
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
CUNY Graduate Center faculty
Sloan Research Fellows
Mathematicians from New York (state)
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers