Alexei Borodin is a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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research

Before joining the Caltech faculty, he was a Clay Research Fellow

Clay Mathematics Institute

The Clay Mathematics Institute is a private, non-profit foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute is dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. It gives out various awards and sponsorships to promising mathematicians. The institute was founded in 1998...

 and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

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His research concerns asymptotic representation theory, relations with random matrices and integrable system

Integrable system

In mathematics and physics, there are various distinct notions that are referred to under the name of integrable systems.In the general theory of differential systems, there is Frobenius integrability, which refers to overdetermined systems. In the classical theory of Hamiltonian dynamical...

s, and the difference equation formulation of monodromy

Monodromy

In mathematics, monodromy is the study of how objects from mathematical analysis, algebraic topology and algebraic and differential geometry behave as they 'run round' a singularity. As the name implies, the fundamental meaning of monodromy comes from 'running round singly'...

. In 2010, he was one of four Caltech faculty invited to present their work at the International Congress of Mathematicians

International Congress of Mathematicians

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education

Borodin graduated from Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 in 1997 and received M.S.E. in computers and information science and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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award

In 2008, Borodin won the European Mathematical Society Prize

European Mathematical Society

The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians...

, one of ten prizes awarded every four years for excellence by a young mathematics researcher.

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