Ciprian Manolescu (born December 24, 1978) is a
Romanian-American
Romanian Americans are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 478,278 Americans indicated Romanian as their first or second ancestry, however other sources provide higher estimates, which are most ...
mathematician, working in
gauge theory,
symplectic geometry, and
low-dimensional topology
In mathematics, low-dimensional topology is the branch of topology that studies manifolds, or more generally topological spaces, of four or fewer dimensions. Representative topics are the structure theory of 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds, knot theor ...
. He is currently a professor of mathematics at
Stanford University.
Biography
Manolescu completed his first eight classes at
School no. 11 Mihai Eminescu and his secondary education at
Ion Brătianu High School in
Piteşti. He completed his undergraduate studies and PhD at
Harvard University under the direction of
Peter B. Kronheimer. He was the winner of the
Morgan Prize
:''Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society.''
The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an un ...
, awarded jointly by AMS-MAA-SIAM, in 2002. His undergraduate thesis was on ''Finite dimensional approximation in
Seiberg–Witten theory
In theoretical physics, Seiberg–Witten theory is a theory that determines an exact low-energy effective action (for massless degrees of freedom) of a \mathcal = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory—namely the metric of the moduli space of vacua.
...
'', and his PhD thesis topic was ''A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg–Witten equations''.
In early 2013 he released a paper detailing a disproof of the
triangulation
In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by forming triangles to the point from known points.
Applications
In surveying
Specifically in surveying, triangulation involves only angle me ...
conjecture for
manifold
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s of dimension 5 and higher. For this paper he received the
E. H. Moore Prize from the
American Mathematical Society
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.
Awards and honors
He was among the recipients of the
Clay Research Fellowship (2004–2008).
In 2012 he was awarded one of the ten prizes of the
European Mathematical Society for his work on low-dimensional topology, and particularly for his role in the development of combinatorial
Heegaard Floer homology.
He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to Floer homology and the topology of manifolds".
In 2018 he was an
invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in
Rio de Janeiro.
In 2020 he received a
Simons Investigator Award
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. The citation reads: "Ciprian Manolescu works in low-dimensional topology and gauge theory. His research is centered on constructing new versions of Floer homology and applying them to questions in topology. With collaborators, he showed that many Floer-theoretic invariants are algorithmically computable. He also developed a new variant of Seiberg-Witten Floer homology, which he used to prove the existence of non-triangulable manifolds in high dimensions."
Competitions
He has one of the best records ever in mathematical competitions:
* He holds the
sole distinction of writing three perfect papers at the
International Mathematical Olympiad
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: Toronto, Canada (1995); Bombay, India (1996); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1997).
* He placed in the top 5 on the
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for college undergraduates in 1997, 1998, and 2000.
Selected works
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References
External links
Manolescu's Stanford PageThe Clay Mathematics Institute page*
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21st-century Romanian mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Topologists
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
People from Alexandria, Romania
1978 births
Living people
Romanian emigrants to the United States
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Geometers
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Putnam Fellows