Andrew Putman | |
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Born | October 22, 1979 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Rice University University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Rice University University of Notre Dame |
Doctoral advisor | Benson Farb |
Andrew Putman (born October 22, 1979) is an American mathematician at the University of Notre Dame. His research fields include geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology.
Putman earned his bachelor's degree from Rice University. In 2007, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Benson Farb. He was a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at MIT from 2007-2010, and then served on the faculty at Rice from 2010-2016. He then moved to Notre Dame, where he is currently the Notre Dame Professor of Topology.
In 2018, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1] In 2014, there was a Seminar Bourbaki talk by Aurélien Djament on Putman's work.[2] Further, in 2013, Putman received the Sloan Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.[3]