Michael Krivelevich (

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: 'מיכאל קריבלביץ; born January 30, 1966) is a professor with the School of Mathematical Sciences of

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

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. Krivelevich received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 1997 under the supervision of

Noga Alon Noga Alon (; born 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers. Education and career ...

. He has published extensively in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

and adjacent fields and specializes in extremal and

probabilistic combinatorics In mathematics, the probabilistic method is a nonconstructive method, primarily used in combinatorics and pioneered by Paul Erdős, for proving the existence of a prescribed kind of mathematical object. It works by showing that if one randomly c ...

. He serves as an editor-in-chief of the

Journal of Combinatorial Theory The ''Journal of Combinatorial Theory'', Series A and Series B, are mathematical journals specializing in combinatorics and related areas. They are published by Elsevier. ''Series A'' is concerned primarily with structures, designs, and applicati ...

(Series B) and is on the editorial board of several other journals in the field.

Awards and honors

In 2007, Krivelevich and

Alan Frieze Alan M. Frieze (born 25 October 1945 in London, England, London, England) is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1966, and ...

won the Pazy Memorial Award for research into probabilistic reasoning in combinatorics. In 2014, Krivelevich gave an invited address in the Combinatorics section at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

. He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of

Fellow A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned society, learned or professional society, p ...

s of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

"for contributions to extremal and probabilistic combinatorics".2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS

, retrieved 2016-11-06.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krivelevich, Michael 20th-century Israeli mathematicians 21st-century Israeli mathematicians Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Combinatorialists 1966 births Living people Fellows of the American Mathematical Society