Gil Kalai#
Membership Number: | 4077 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2015 |
Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kalai |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - present Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2004 - present adjunct professor of mathematics and computer science Yale University (long-term part time visiting position)
- Fall 2000 member IAS Princeton
- Fall 1995 member IAS Princeton
- 1990 - 1991 Visiting Scientist, IBM research Almaden California
- 1988 - 1992 Associate Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1985 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1983 - 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, M.I.T.
Fields of Scholarship
- Combinatorics: geometric, probabilistic and topological
- Convex sets and convex polytopes
- Linear programming and theoretical computer science
Honours and Awards
- 2016 European congress of Mathematics, plenary speaker (forthcoming)
- 2013 ERC advanced grant
- 2012 Rothschild Prize
- 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians invited section talk, Zurich
- 1994 Fulkerson Prize
- 1993 Erdos Prize
- 1992 Polya Prize