Professor Dr Yuri Tschinkel
- Section Mathematics
- Location New York, United States
- Election year 2018
Research
Research Priorities: Algebraic geometry, number theory, algebraic varieties, rational Points
Yuri Tschinkel is a mathematician. He works in the field of arithmetic geometry. He especially studies the rationality of varieties and the existence and distribution of rational points.
Yuri Tschinkel’s research moves at the interface between algebraic geometry and number theory. Algebraic geometry connects abstract algebra with geometry. It is concerned with geometric entities that can be described with equations, such as circles, ellipses, or cones. Number theory inquires into the qualities of integral and rational numbers, especially into solutions for equations with more than one variable.
Yuri Tschinkel studies algebraic varieties, their hidden symmetries, and rational points. Algebraic varieties are geometrical objects that are defined by polynomial equations. The points of these varieties are also used to describe geometrical facts. Methods of algebraic theory are part of numerous fields within mathematics and are also important to physics.
Yuri Tschinkel was the executive producer of the documentary “Colors of Math“.
Yuri Tschinkel is a mathematician. He works in the field of arithmetic geometry. He especially studies the rationality of varieties and the existence and distribution of rational points.
Yuri Tschinkel’s research moves at the interface between algebraic geometry and number theory. Algebraic geometry connects abstract algebra with geometry. It is concerned with geometric entities that can be described with equations, such as circles, ellipses, or cones. Number theory inquires into the qualities of integral and rational numbers, especially into solutions for equations with more than one variable.
Yuri Tschinkel studies algebraic varieties, their hidden symmetries, and rational points. Algebraic varieties are geometrical objects that are defined by polynomial equations. The points of these varieties are also used to describe geometrical facts. Methods of algebraic theory are part of numerous fields within mathematics and are also important to physics.
Yuri Tschinkel was the executive producer of the documentary “Colors of Math“.
Career
- 012 Guest Fellow, Bernoulli Center, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2007-2011 Chair of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (NYU), New York City, USA
- since 2005 Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York City, USA
- 2003-2008 Professor, Gauß-Chair, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- 2001-2002 Clay Foundation Fellowship, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
- 1999-2003 Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
- 1999-2003 Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA
- 1998 Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
- 1998 Guest Researcher, Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France
- 1995-1999 Assistant Professor, UIC, Chicago, USA
- 1995-1996 Leibniz Fellow, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- 1994-1997 Guest Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM), Bonn, Germany
- 1992-1994 Guest Researcher, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto and Tokio, Japan
- 1992-1995 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- 1992 PhD in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
- 1985-1990 Studies in Mathematics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Functions
- since 2024 Member, Board of Directors, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
- since 2023 Executive Vice President, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division (MPS), Simons Foundation, New York City, USA
- 2022-2025 Member, Directorate Advisory Committee “Mathematical and Physical Sciences”, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- 2022 Member, US National Committee for Mathematics (USNC/Math), International Mathematical Union (IMU)
- 2020 Member, Award Committee, Cantor Medal, Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV), Germany
- 2017 Member, Program Committee, 2nd Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA), Mathematical Council of the Americas (MCofA), USA
- 2017 Member, Scientific Committee, 4th Workshop on Zeta Functions, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD), Villeurbanne, France
- 2017 Member, Advisory Board, International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)
- since 2016 Member, Advisory Board, Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- since 2015 Member, Steering Committee, Département de mathématiques et applications (DMA), École normale supérieure, Paris, France
- since 2014 Trustee, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
- 2013-2016 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, Providence, USA
- since 2012 Head, Division “Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS)”, Simons Foundation, New York City, USA
- 2012-2023 Director, MPS, Simons Foundation, New York City, USA
- 2012-2019 Member, Curatorium, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California (UC), Berkeley, USA
- 2012-2016 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, ArXiv, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- 2013-2016 Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, Providence, USA
- 2013 Member, Program Committee, Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), USA and the Romanian Math Society (SSMR), Romania
- 2010-2015 Scientific Advisory Board, Foundation Sciences Mathematiques de Paris, Paris, France
- since 2008 Scientific Advisory Board, Department of Mathematics and Applications (DMA), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
- 2008-2012 Advisory Board, Friends of IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
- Managing Editor, Algebraic Geometry, Experimental Mathematics
- Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
- Deputy Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Mathematics
- Editor-in-Chief, Research in Mathematical Sciences
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
- Member, Editorial Board, Progress in Mathematics series
- Editor, Progress in Mathematics
- Editor, SpringerBriefs
- Editor, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
- Editor, Proceedings Simons Symposia
- Editor, Serdica Mathematical Journal
- Advisory Member, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Projects
- 2026 Member, Local Organizing Committee, International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- 2016 Principal Investigator, Standard Grant “Birational Geometry and Rational Points”, NSF, USA
- 2010-2014 Member, Focused Research Group (FRG), Collaborative Research “Arithmetic and geometry of rational curves on K3 surfaces”, NSF, USA
- 2008-2012 Member, Research Training Group in Number theory, NSF, USA
- 2006-2010 Member, FRG, Collaborative Research “Geometry of moduli spaces of rational curves with applications to Diophantine problems over function fields”, NSF, USA
- 1999-2008 Participating Researcher, Research Training Group (GRK) 535 “Groups and Group Theory”, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
Honours and Memberships
- since 2025 Corresponding Member, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Lower Saxony, Germany
- since 2025 Fellow, World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS)
- since 2024 Foreign Member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Bulgaria
- 2023 Honorary Doctorate and Commencement Speaker, University of Miami (UM), Miami, USA
- 2023 Frontier of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), Beijing, China
- 2022 Walter Feit Memorial Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, USA
- since 2021 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2020 Whittaker Lecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- since 2018 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
- 2017 Emmy Noether Lecture, Bar-Ilan-University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- since 2014 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
- since 2012 Fellow, AMS, USA