Bjorn Poonen

Bjorn Poonen
Poonen at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born (1968-07-27) July 27, 1968 (age 56)
Boston, Massachusetts
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMIT
Thesis The Mordell-Weil theorem, rigidity, and pairings for Drinfeld modules  (1994)
Doctoral advisorKenneth Alan Ribet
Doctoral students
Websitemath.mit.edu/~poonen/

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability[2] and computer science.[3] He has edited two books.[4][5]

He is the founding managing editor of the journal Algebra & Number Theory,[6] and serves also on the editorial boards of Involve: A Journal of Mathematics[7] and the A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series.[8]

  1. ^ "Profile". MIT Mathematics. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  2. ^ Amir Dembo, Qi-Man Shao, Bjorn Poonen, and Ofer Zeitouni, "Random polynomials with few or no real zeros", Journal of the American Mathematical Society 15 (2002), 857–892.
  3. ^ Poonen, Bjorn (1993). "The Worst Case in Shellsort and Related Algorithms". Journal of Algorithms. 15 (1). Elsevier BV: 101–124. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.138.295. doi:10.1006/jagm.1993.1032. ISSN 0196-6774.
  4. ^ Kedlaya, Kiran S.; Poonen, Bjorn; Vakil, Ravi (March 24, 2011). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985–2000. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-827-1.
  5. ^ "Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties". Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 226. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. 2004. doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-8170-8. ISBN 978-1-4612-6471-2. ISSN 0743-1643.
  6. ^ "Algebra & Number Theory". MSP. May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  7. ^ "Involve". msp.org. May 2, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  8. ^ Curriculum vitae, retrieved January 28, 2015.