Biography:Ilijas Farah
Ilijas Farah (born February 18, 1966, in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia) is a Canadian-Serbian[1] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at York University in Toronto and at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.[2][3] His research focuses on applications of logic to operator algebras.[4]
Career
He received his BSc and MSc in 1988 and 1992 respectively from the Belgrade University and his PhD in 1997 from the University of Toronto.[5][6] He is now a Research Chair in Logic and Operator Algebras at York University, Toronto. Before moving to York University he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University (1997–99), a Hill Assistant Professor at Rutgers University (1999–2000), and a professor at CUNY–Graduate center and College of Staten Island (2000–02).[7]
Awards, distinctions, and recognitions
- Sacks prize for the best doctorate in Mathematical Logic, 1997[6]
- Governor General's gold medal for one of the two best doctorates at the University of Toronto, 1998
- The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for the best dissertation in engineering, medicine and the natural sciences in Canada, 1998.
- Dean's award for outstanding research, York University, 2006.[7]
- Faculty Excellence in Research Award (Established Research Award), Faculty of Science, York University, 2017[8]
Professor Farah was an invited speaker at the ICM, Seoul 2014, section on Logic and Foundations, where he presented his work on applications of logic to operator algebras.[9][10]
Sources
- ↑ On Contribution of Serbian Mathematicians to Set Theory
- ↑ "MISANU" (in la). May 17, 2016. http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs.
- ↑ Coskey, Samuel; Farah, Ilijas (March 19, 2014). "Automorphisms of corona algebras, and group cohomology". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society (AMS)) 366 (7): 3611–3630. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-2014-06146-1. ISSN 0002-9947.
- ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ "Ilijas Farah - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=15997.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "1998 Sacks Prize winners announcement". https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcjm/stn/farah/sacks.html.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 York University Ilijas Farah Home page
- ↑ "Faculty of Science - York University". https://www.yorku.ca/science/.
- ↑ "Jang,Sun Young; Kim, Young Rock; Lee, Dae-Woong; Yie, Ikkwon (ed): Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul 2014, VOLUME II, Invited Lectures, p. 15". http://www.icm2014.org/download/Proceedings_Volume_II.pdf.
- ↑ "ICM2014 VideoSeries IL1.2: Ilijas Farah on Aug15Fri". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjkWAIUlk3s.
External links
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- Farah, Ilijas (2019). Combinatorial set theory of C*-algebras. Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-27093-3. OCLC 1134074666.
- Farah, Ilijas (2000). Analytic quotients : theory of liftings for quotients over analytic ideals on the integers. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-0293-8. OCLC 851086221. https://books.google.com/books?id=IP7TCQAAQBAJ.
- Ilijas Farah: Krajnja proširenja modela, MSc thesis, Belgrade university 1992.
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