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Harvard University; Moscow State University.
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Igor Pak
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He formerly taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Minnesota and is best known for his bijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number of Young tableaux, and his work on random walks. He was a keynote speaker alongside George Andrews and Doron Zeilberger at the 2006 Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics. Pak is an Associate Editor for the journal Discrete Mathematics.
He gave a Fejes Tóth Lecture at the University of Calgary in February 2009.
Pak went to Moscow High School № 57. After graduating, he worked for a year at Bank Menatep.
Pak did his undergraduate studies at Moscow State University. He was a Doctor of Philosophy student of Persi Diaconis at Harvard University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics in 1997.
Afterwards, he worked with László Lovász as a postdoc at Yale University.
He was a fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and a long term visitor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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