Fedor (Fedya) L'vovich Nazarov (russian: Фёдор (Фе́дя) Льво́вич Наза́ров; born 1967) is a Russian

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working in the

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. He has done research in

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...

and its applications, in particular in

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defined o ...

and

classical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limits, and related theories, such as differentiation, integration, measure, infinite sequences, series, and analytic functions. These theories are usually studied in ...

(including harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, and

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s).

Biography

Fedor Nazarov received his Ph.D. from St Petersburg University in 1993, with Victor Petrovich Havin as advisor. Before his Ph.D. studies, Nazarov received the Gold Medal and Special prize at the

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in 1984. Nazarov worked at Michigan State University in

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from 1995 to 2007 and at the

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from 2007 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been a full professor of Mathematics at

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Awards

Nazarov was awarded the Salem Prize in 1999 "for his work in harmonic analysis, in particular, the

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, and his contribution to the development of Bellman function methods". He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Analysis".

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