Denis Osin is a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private university, private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provide ...

working in

geometric group theory Geometric group theory is an area in mathematics devoted to the study of finitely generated groups via exploring the connections between algebraic properties of such groups and topological and geometric properties of spaces on which these group ...

and

geometric topology In mathematics, geometric topology is the study of manifolds and Map (mathematics)#Maps as functions, maps between them, particularly embeddings of one manifold into another. History Geometric topology as an area distinct from algebraic topo ...

Career

Osin received a PhD at

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1999 under the supervision of

Aleksandr Olshansky Alexander Yu. Olshanskii (; born 19 January 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorial and geometric group theory. He is particularly noted for constructing infinite groups with unusual properties a ...

. He worked at the

Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (FinU / FA or Financial University / Finance Academy; Russian: Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской Федера� ...

, at the City College of CUNY, and joined Vanderbilt in 2008. He was promoted to a Full Professor in 2013. He is an editor at ''

Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics ''Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by the European Mathematical Society. It was established in 2007 and covers all aspects of groups, group actions, geometry and dynamical systems ...

''.

Recognition

He was a speaker 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 ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

in 2018. He was named to the 2021 class of fellows 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 in geometric group theory, specifically groups acting on hyperbolic spaces".

References

External links

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* Living people Group theorists Topologists Moscow State University alumni Vanderbilt University faculty 21st-century Russian mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Mathematical Society {{US-mathematician-stub