Education
Agol obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1998 from the University of California, San Diego with Michael Freedman (Topology of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds).
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Agol obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1998 from the University of California, San Diego with Michael Freedman (Topology of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds).
He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Agol, Calegari, and Gabai received the 2009 Clay Research Award for their proof of the Marden tameness conjecture. In 2005, Agol was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2013, Agol was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, along with Daniel Wise. 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.".
American Mathematical Society.
