Yakov Sinai - Curriculum vitae#
CV (January 2014)
Birthdate: September 21, 1935
Birthplace: Moscow, USSR
Educational History
- Doctor Degree Moscow State University, 1963
- Ph.D. Moscow State University, 1960
- B.S. Moscow State University, 1957
Professional History
- 1993-present Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
- 1971-1993 Professor, Moscow State University (part of position)
- 1971-present Senior Researcher, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia
- 1960-1971 Scientific Researcher, Laboratory of Probabilistic & Statistical Methods, Moscow State University
Lectures
- 1962 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematics, Stockholm
- 1970 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematics, Nice
- 1978 Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
- 1981-1986 Plenary Speaker, International Congresses on Mathematical Physics, Berlin (1981), Marseilles (1986)
- 1989 Distinguished Lecturer, Israel
- 1990 S. Lefshetz Lectures, Mexico
- 1990 Plenary Speaker, International Congress of Mathematics, Kyoto
- 1993 Landau Lectures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2000 Plenary Speaker, The First Latin American Congress in Mathematics
- 2000 Plenary Speaker, The AMS Meeting “Challenges in Mathematics”
- 2001 Andreewski Lectures, Berlin, Germany
- 2001 Bowen Lectures, University of California at Berkeley
- 2002 Alaoglu Lecture, Caltech
- 2004 Ritt Lectures, Columbia University
Awards & Honors
- 1983 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Science
- 1986 Boltzman Gold Medal given by IUPAP
- 1989 Heineman Prize given by the American Physical Society
- 1990 Markov Prize given by the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society
- 1992 Dirac Medal given by ICPT in Trieste
- 1993 Doctor Honoris Causa of Warsaw University
- 1993 Foreign Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- 1997-1998 Thomas Jones Professor of Princeton University
- 1999 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of U.S.A.
- 2000 Foreign Member of the Brazilean Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Brazilean Award of Merits in Sciences
- 2001 Moser Prize given by SIAM
- 2001 The Chairman of the Fields Medal Committee of IMU
- 2002 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
- 2002 Honorary degree from Budapest University of Science and Technology
- 2005 Honorary degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem
- 2005 Moore Distinguished Scholar, October, November, December 2005, California, Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- 2006 Leonardo Da Vinci Lecture, Milano, Italy
- 2006 Galileo Chair, Pisa, Italy
- 2007 Kolmogorov Lecture and Medal, University of London
- 2007 John T. Lewis Lecture Series, HTMI & DIAS, Dublin Ireland
- 2007 Porter Lecture Series, Rice University, Houston, Texas
- 2008 Lagrange Prize, given by ISI Institute, Torino, Italy
- 2008 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2009 Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London
- 2009 Henri Poincar´e Prize given by the International Association of Mathematical Physics
- 2009 Dobrushin International Prize given by the Institute of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Polish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member
Last updated: January 2010