Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Світлана Житомирська
Born (1966-06-04) June 4, 1966 (age 58)
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forTen martini problem
AwardsRuth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2005)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2020)
Olga Ladyzhenskaya Prize (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
Thesis Spectral and Statistical Properties of Lattice Hamiltonians  (1991)
Doctoral advisorYakov Sinai

Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya[a] (born June 4, 1966) is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.[1][2] She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech and UC Irvine.[3] She is best known for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila.[4][5]


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  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Svetlana Jitomirskaya", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ Jitomirskaya's CV
  3. ^ "Distinguished professors". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  4. ^ Avila, Artur; Jitomirskaya, Svetlana (2006). "Solving the Ten Martini Problem". Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 690. pp. 5–16. arXiv:math/0503363. doi:10.1007/3-540-34273-7_2. ISBN 978-3-540-31026-6. S2CID 55259301.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference heineman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).