Ilijas Farah

Ilijas Farah

Ilijas Farah (born February 16, 1966) is a Canadian-Serbian[1] set theorist and logician and a professor in mathematics at York University and at Mathematical Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.[2] His research is in applications of logic to operator algebras and set theory. He is a leading expert and renowned expositor in operator algebras that apply various concepts, tools, and ideas from logic and set theory to classification problems in operator algebras.[3][4]

Career

He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Stevo Todorcevic.[5][6] He is now a professor in mathematics at York University, Toronto. Before moving to York University he was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University (1997–99) and an assistant professor at Rutgers university (1999–2000), and at CUNY–Graduate center and College of Staten Island (2000–03)[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]

Farah was an invited speaker at the ICM, Seoul 2014, Logic session, where he presented his work related to the logic and operator algebras.[8]

Sources

  1. ↑ On Contribution of Serbian Mathematicians to Set Theory
  2. ↑ Samuel Coskey and Ilijas Farah: Automorphisms of corona algebras, and group cohomology (Additional information), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, March 19, 2014
  3. ↑ APPLICATIONS OF MODEL THEORY TO OPERATOR ALGEBRAS July 31 – August 4, 2017, University of Houston
  4. ↑ Logic and operator algebras by Ilijas Farah
  5. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Ilijas Farah
  6. 1 2 1997 Sacks Prize winners
  7. 1 2 York University Ilijas Farah Home page
  8. ↑ 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
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