Maria Chudnovsky
| Maria Chudnovsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 6, 1977 |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | Israeli-American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
Technion, Princeton University |
| Thesis | Berge Trigraphs and Their Applications. (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Seymour |
| Known for |
Graph theory, Combinatorial optimization |
Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization.[1] She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.[2]
Biography
Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion,[3] and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton University under the supervision of Paul Seymour.[4] After postdoctoral research at the Clay Mathematics Institute,[3] she became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2005, and moved to Columbia University in 2006. By 2014, she was the Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia. She returned to Princeton as a professor of mathematics in 2015.[1]
She is a citizen of Israel and a permanent resident of the USA.[1]
In 2012, she married Daniel Panner, a viola player who teaches at Mannes College The New School for Music and the Juilliard School. They have a son named Rafael. [5]
Research
 Mathematician Maria Chudnovsky: 2012 MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation[6] |
Chudnovsky's contributions to graph theory include the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem (with Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas) characterizing perfect graphs as being exactly the graphs with no odd induced cycles of length at least 5 or their complements.[7][8][9] Other research contributions of Chudnovsky include co-authorship of the first polynomial time algorithm for recognizing perfect graphs (degree 9),[10] and of a structural characterization of the claw-free graphs.[11]
Selected publications
- Chudnovsky, Maria; Cornuéjols, Gérard; Liu, Xinming; Seymour, Paul; Vušković, Kristina (2005), "Recognizing Berge graphs", Combinatorica, 25 (2): 143–186, doi:10.1007/s00493-005-0012-8, MR 2127609.
- Chudnovsky, Maria; Seymour, Paul (2005), "The structure of claw-free graphs", Surveys in Combinatorics 2005, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 327, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 153–171, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511734885.008, MR 2187738.
- Chudnovsky, Maria; Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin (2006), "The strong perfect graph theorem", Annals of Mathematics, 164 (1): 51–229, doi:10.4007/annals.2006.164.51.
Awards and honors
In 2004 Chudnovsky was named one of the “Brilliant 10” by Popular Science magazine.[12] Her work on the strong perfect graph theorem won for her and her co-authors the 2009 Fulkerson Prize.[13] In 2012 she was awarded a "genius award" under the MacArthur Fellows Program.[14][15]
References
- 1 2 3 "Maria Chudnovsky Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ "2012 MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' Winners". 1 October 2012. AP. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- 1 2 Interview with Research Fellow Maria Chudnovsky (PDF), Clay Mathematics Institute, 2005.
- ↑ Maria Chudnovsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Striking While the Iron Is Hot - NYTimes.com". mobile.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ "Maria Chudnovsky". MacArthur Fellows Program. MacArthur Foundation. October 2, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
- ↑ Mackenzie, Dana (July 5, 2002), "Mathematics: Graph theory uncovers the roots of perfection", Science, 297 (5578): 38, doi:10.1126/science.297.5578.38, PMID 12098683.
- ↑ Cornuéjols, Gérard (2002), "The strong perfect graph conjecture", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. III (Beijing, 2002) (PDF), Beijing: Higher Ed. Press, pp. 547–559, MR 1957560.
- ↑ Roussel, F.; Rusu, I.; Thuillier, H. (2009), "The strong perfect graph conjecture: 40 years of attempts, and its resolution", Discrete Mathematics, 309 (20): 6092–6113, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2009.05.024, MR 2552645.
- ↑ Chudnovsky et al. (2005).
- ↑ Chudnovsky & Seymour (2005).
- ↑ Minkel, J. R. (June 29, 2004), "Maria Chudnovsky", Popular Science
- ↑ "2009 Fulkerson Prizes" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society: 1475–1476, December 2011.
- ↑ Lee, Felicia R. (October 1, 2012), "Surprise Grants Transforming 23 More Lives", New York Times
- ↑ Maria Chudnovsky, MacArthur Foundation, October 2, 2012.