Alexander Furman is a mathematician at the University of Illinois, Chicago.[1][2] Furman received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986,[3][4] later earning his master's degree and PhD in mathematics in 1989 and 1996 respectively from the same university.[3][4]

Career

Furman started teaching mathematics in 1996 as an L. E. Dickson instructor of mathematics at the University of Chicago.[3] A year later, in 1997, he got a position as a Post-Doctoral fellow at Penn State University.[3]  He has worked at the University of Illinois Chicago since 1997, serving as an assistant professor from 1999 until 2007, and beginning as a full-time professor in 2007.[3]

Furman also runs the UIC Math Olympiad Project where he works with high school-age students, encouraging them to discuss and work out mathematical problems.[5]

Honors and awards

Furman's work in the field of mathematics has earned him a total of fourteen awards. He has been awarded the National Science Foundation Grant a total of five times,[3][6] and has also been awarded grants by the Binational Science Foundation three times.[3][7] In 2014 the Simons Foundation made Furman a Fellow in mathematics[8][3] and he was awarded the National Science Foundation Career Award for his work in teaching through research.[9][6] In 2014 he was an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematics hosted in Seoul.[9][10] For his work in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and Lie groups, he was chosen to be an American Mathematical Society Fellow in 2016 for his contributions in mathematics.[11] His most recently received awards are the UIC's University Scholar Award and the LAS Distinguished Professor Award.[9][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Alexander Furman". www.math.uic.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ "2016 University Scholar Alexander Furman | UIC Today". today.uic.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Alex Furman".
  4. 1 2 "Einstein Institute of Mathematics". mathematics.huji.ac.il. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ "uicmop". sites.google.com. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  6. 1 2 "NSF – National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Homepage". BSF. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Simons Fellows in Mathematics". Simons Foundation.
  9. 1 2 3 "Faculty Awards | Dept of Math, Stat, & Comp Sci | University of Illinois at Chicago". mscs.uic.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  10. ↑ "International Congress of Mathematicians". www.icm2014.org. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  11. ↑ "2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. March 2016.
  12. ↑ "University Scholars Program – EVPAA". www.vpaa.uillinois.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Faculty Awards & Research Support | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Illinois at Chicago". las.uic.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
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