Ian Agol
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Ian Agol in Aarhus, August 2012
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| Born | May 13, 1970 Hollywood, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Freedman |
| Doctoral students | Shawn Rafalski Christopher K Atkinson |
| Known for | Virtually Haken conjecture Freedman–He–Wang conjecture Wise's conjecture Marden tameness conjecture |
| Notable awards | Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2016)[1] Veblen Prize in Geometry (2013) Senior Berwick Prize (2012) Clay Research Award (2009) |
Ian Agol (born May 13, 1970) is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds.[2]
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Education and career
Agol obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of California, San Diego with Michael Freedman (Topology of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds).[3] He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley[4] and a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[5]
Contributions
In 2004, Agol proved the Marden tameness conjecture, a conjecture of Albert Marden (de).[6] It states that a hyperbolic 3-manifold with finitely generated fundamental group is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact 3-manifold. The conjecture was also independently proven by Danny Calegari and David Gabai, and implies the Ahlfors measure conjecture.[6]
In 2012 he announced a proof of the virtually Haken conjecture. It states that every aspherical 3-manifold is finitely covered by a Haken manifold.
Awards and honors
Agol, Calegari, and Gabai received the 2009 Clay Research Award for their proof of the Marden tameness conjecture.[6]
In 2005, Agol was a Guggenheim Fellow.[7] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8]
In 2013, Agol was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, along with Daniel Wise.[9]
In 2015, he was awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, "for spectacular contributions to low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including work on the solutions of the tameness, virtually Haken and virtual fibering conjectures."[10]
In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[11]
Personal
His twin brother, Eric Agol,[12][13] is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.[14]
References
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- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Living people
- 1970 births
- Clay Research Award recipients
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
