Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton University in 2011 under the guidance of Peter Clive Sarnak.
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Jacob Tsimerman
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Career
He was awarded the Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015. Tsimerman is recognized for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his mastery of both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry. Jacob Tsimerman was born in Kazan, Russia on April 26, 1988.
In 1990 his family first moved to Israel and then in 1996 to Canada.
Following his Doctor of Philosophy, he had a post-doctoral position at Harvard University as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. The Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy Ramanujan Prize is the first major international prize awarded to him.
Achievements
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In 2003 and 2004 he represented Canada in the International Mathematical Olympiad (International Maritime Organization) and won gold medals both years, with a perfect score in 2004. In July 2014 he was awarded a Sloan Fellowship and he started his term as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
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Nationality
Canadian
Awards
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Sloan Fellowship; SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) University in Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.; The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) University in Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.; The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.