> Dr. Vlad Vysotskii, who is a Visiting Assistant Professor in our department, was one of the two recipients of the The Young Mathematician Award 2008 given by the St.-Petersburg Mathematical Society of Russia. The award was established in 1962, when it was given to the well known mathematician V.G. Maz'ya. Y.V. Matiyasevitch (1970), who solved Hilbert's tenth problem, and G.Ya. Perelman (1991) (one of the 2008 Fields medalists) are among the previous recipients, many of whom have became well known mathematicians (the Fields Medal is said to be the "Nobel Prize" of mathematics) . More information is available at: http://www.mathsoc.spb.ru/mol_mat.html. Dr. Vysotskii works in the area of probability and stochastic process.

Article created: February 11, 2009