Alexander A. Kiselev (born 1969) is an
American
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mathematician, specializing in
spectral theory,
partial differential equation
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...
s, and
fluid mechanics.
Career
Alexander Kiselev received his bachelor's degree in 1992 from
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...
and his PhD in 1997 from
Caltech under supervision of
Barry Simon.
In 1997-1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, where he co-authored a paper on
Christ–Kiselev maximal inequality
In mathematics, the Christ–Kiselev maximal inequality is a maximal inequality for filtrations, named for mathematicians Michael Christ and Alexander Kiselev.M. Christ, A. Kiselev, Maximal functions associated to filtrations. J. Funct. Anal. 1 ...
.
Between 1998 and 2002 he was an E. Dickson Instructor and then assistant professor at the
University of Chicago where he worked with
Peter Constantin
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on reaction-diffusion equations and fluid mechanics. In 2001, Kiselev solved one of the
Simon problems,
on existence of imbedded singular continuous spectrum of the Schrödinger operator with slowly decaying potential.
He taught at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2002 to 2013, as an associate and full professor. He was a member of the
Rice University faculty between 2013 and 2017. Since 2018, Kiselev is a William T. Laprade Professor of Mathematics at
Duke University
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. His research has been profiled by Science Watch,
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Duke Today and Quanta Magazine
Awards and honors
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Sloan Research Fellowship, 2001
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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, 2012
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Invited speaker, 2018
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
.
* 12th
Brooke Benjamin
Thomas Brooke Benjamin, FRS (15 April 1929 – 16 August 1995) was an English mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential eq ...
Lecture, Oxford University, 2019
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Simons Foundation Fellow in Mathematics, 2020
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University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Duke University faculty
Mathematical analysts
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Rice University faculty
Complex analysts
Fluid dynamicists
1969 births
Living people
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Russian emigrants to the United States
Sloan Research Fellows