Maria Chudnovsky
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Chudnovsky in 2011.
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| Born | January 6, 1977 |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | Israeli-American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
Technion, Princeton University |
| Thesis | Berge Trigraphs and Their Applications. (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Seymour |
| Known for |
Graph theory, Combinatorial optimization |
 Mathematician Maria Chudnovsky: 2012 MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
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Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion, and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton University under the supervision of Paul Seymour. After postdoctoral research at the Clay Mathematics Institute, she became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2005, and moved to Columbia University in 2006. By 2014, she was the Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia. She returned to Princeton as a professor of mathematics in 2015.
She is a citizen of Israel and a permanent resident of the USA.
In 2012, she married Daniel Panner, a viola player who teaches at Mannes College The New School for Music and the Juilliard School. They have a son named Rafael.
Chudnovsky's contributions to graph theory include the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem (with Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas) characterizing perfect graphs as being exactly the graphs with no odd induced cycles of length at least 5 or their complements. Other research contributions of Chudnovsky include co-authorship of the first polynomial time algorithm for recognizing perfect graphs (degree 9), and of a structural characterization of the claw-free graphs.
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