John Pardon received his PhD in 2015 from Stanford University under the supervision of Yakov Eliashberg. His most recent work concerns the construction of virtual fundamental cycles on moduli spaces of holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry. He is also interested in geometry and low-dimensional topology. John received his AB in Math from Princeton University in 2011. John was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 1 July 2015.
James Maynard received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Roger Heath-Brown and is currently a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. James is primarily interested in classical number theory, in particular the distribution of prime numbers. His research focuses on using tools from analytic number theory, particularly sieve methods, to study primes. James has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of three years beginning 1 July 2015.
June Huh received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Mircea Mustaţă. He applies algebraic geometry and singularity theory to problems in combinatorics and other areas. His recent interests include singularities of projective hypersurfaces, positivity of Chern classes of Schubert varieties, and connections between realizability problems in algebraic geometry and combinatorial geometry. June was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 1 July 2014.
Peter Hintz studies hyperbolic partial differential equations arising in general relativity using methods from microlocal analysis, spectral and scattering theory, and dynamical systems. His recent work concerns the stability of black holes in expanding spacetimes. Born in Kassel, Germany, Peter received a BSc in Mathematics and BSc in Physics from the University of Gottingen in 2011 and a PhD in 2015 from Stanford University under the supervision of András Vasy. Peter is a Miller Research Fellow (2015-2017) at the UC Berkeley, mentored by Maciej Zworski.
Peter was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of three years beginning 1 July 2017.
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Simion Filip will receive his PhD in June 2016 from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Alex Eskin. He is interested in the connections between dynamical systems and algebraic geometry, in particular between Teichmüller dynamics and Hodge theory. His recent interests also involve K3 surfaces and their special geometric properties. Simion has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 1 July 2016.
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Semyon Dyatlov received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (May 2013) under the supervision of Maciej Zworski. He applies the methods of microlocal analysis and dynamical systems to problems in scattering theory, quantum chaos, and mathematical general relativity. One of his research interests is scattering resonances, which are complex numbers generalizing the concept of bound states to open systems. Resonances appear in particular when studying long-time behavior of linear waves on noncompact mainfolds, or decay of classical correlations for chaotic flows. In his thesis, Semyon develops a new microlocal framework to describe asymptotics of resonances and phase space concentration of associated resonant states under dynamical assumptions motivated by the wave equations on rotating black holes.
Semyon received his B.Sc. from Novosibirsk State University in 2008. He was a member of MSRI in Fall 2013 and is currently at MIT. Semyon began his five-year term on 1 July 2013.
Akhil Mathew received his PhD in 2017 from Harvard University under the supervision of Jacob Lurie. Previously he received an undergraduate degree from Harvard and studied at UC Berkeley for one year. His research focuses on homotopy theory, higher categories, and their applications, especially to derived algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. Some of his past work studied various generalizations of faithfully flat descent in stable homotopy theory and their role in describing certain invariants of structured ring spectra.
Akhil was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 1 July 2017.
Research Fellow James Maynard has been appointed Research Professor at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford and receives a Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society. The Wolfson Merit Award is a prestigious award intended to attract or retain respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential. James will take up his professorship upon completion of his CMI fellowship in July 2018.
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