Yuval Flicker | |
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Born |
Kfar Saba, Israel |
3 January 1955
Nationality | Israel, United States |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
The Ohio State University Ariel University |
Alma mater |
University of Cambridge Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel Aviv University |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Baker |
Doctoral students | Dmitrii Zinoviev, Ping-Shun Chen, Martin Nikolov |
Notable awards | Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fulbright Award, Lady Davis Fellow, Simons Foundation Fellow, NUS Senior Fellow |
Yuval Zvi Flicker (Hebrew: יוּבַל צְבִי פְלִיקֶר; born 1955 in Israel) is an American mathematician. His primary research interests include automorphic representations.
He received his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 1978. His thesis advisor was Alan Baker, in the area of transcendental number theory.
He taught at Princeton University (badly), Columbia University, Harvard University and Ohio State University, where he is now a Professor. He also worked with David Kazhdan and Pierre Deligne.
Born 1955 in Kfar-Saba, raised in Ramat-Gan, Flicker studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University gaining a BA in 1973, then he studied Mathematics at the Hebrew University gaining an MA in 1974. After that he studied Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at DPMMS, Cambridge University in 1974-75, where he was awarded his PhD under the supervision of Fields Medalist Alan Baker in 1978. His dissertation was "Linear forms on Abelian Varieties over Local Fields". He was a Post Doctoral scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton 1978-79, at Columbia University 1979-81, at Princeton University 1981-85, and at Harvard University 1985-87. He worked as a Professor of Mathematics at the Ohio State University from 1987 to 2015.