Andrei Okounkov to Give Milliman Lectures

The 2008-09 Milliman Lecturer will be Professor Andrei Okounkov of Princeton University, who will be visiting the UW for the week of May 18-22, 2009. Professor Okounkov was one of the recipients of the 2006 Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, “for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.” This citation by the Fields Medal committee only hints at the remarkable scope of Okounkov’s work, which also involves combinatorics and mathematical physics and often reveals deep new connections between different fields of mathematics. Okounkov has not yet announced the topics of his lectures, but they are sure to be interesting.

For more information about the Milliman Lecture series, see the official website.