Peter Sarnak#
| Membership Number: | 3632 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.math.ias.edu/people/faculty/sarnak |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2007-2024 Professor, Institute for Advanced Study (Gopal Prasad Professor, 2022)
- 2005 - 2007 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2002 Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
- 2001 - 2005 Courant Institute, NYU, Professor
- 1996 - 1999 Chair, Princeton University, Department of Mathematics
- 1995 - 1996 H. Fine Professor, Princeton University
- 1991 Princeton University, Professor
- 1987 - 1988 Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Fellow
- 1987 - 1991 Stanford University, Professor
- 1983 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, Associate Professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Number theory
- Analysis / automorphic forms
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Shaw Prize
- 2023 Honorary Doctorate, Stockholm University
- 2021 Elected Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society
- 2020 Hardy Lecturer, London Mathematical Society
- 2019 Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society
- 2017 Honorary Doctorate, Kings College London; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2016 Honorary Doctorate, The University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- 2015 Honorary Doctorate, The University of Chicago; elected Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of South Africa
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate, Shandong University, China; Wolf Prize in Mathematics; Honorary degree, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Phi Beta Kappa award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Princeton chapter
- 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- 2012 Lester R. Ford Award
- 2010 Honorary Degree, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 2008 Elected to The American Philosophical Society
- 2005 Frank Nelson Cole Prize, AMS
- 2004 Aisenstadt Chair, CRM (Montreal), Rothchild Chair, Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge).
- 2003 Levi L. Conant Prize (AMS) (joint with N. Katz).
- 2002 Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.), and Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.)
- 2001 Ostrowski Prize from the Ostrowski Foundation, Basel, (shared with H. Iwaniec and R. Taylor)
- 1998 Polya Prize of Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics, (shared with P. Deift and X. Zhou)
- 1991 Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 1985 - 1990 Presidential Young Investigator
- 1983 - 1985 Sloan Fellow
- 1975 Unisco Chemical Company Gold Medal, (University of Witwatersrand)
- 1974 William Cullen Medal, (University of Witwatersrand)
- 1974 Hebert LeMay Prize, (University of Witwatersrand)
