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Timothy Derek Austin
Tim Austin

Timothy Derek Austin, an American mathematician whose research is primarily focused on analysis, probability theory, strict statistical mechanics and ergodic theory. Austin is currently employed as a full-time professor.

Education Background

Austin’s collegiate journey began in 2002. Under the supervision of his professor, T. Tao, Austin’s thesis was written in 2010 titled as, “Multiple Recurrence and Structure of Probability-Preserving Systems”. In 2005 Austin obtained a BA in Mathematics. Within the same year, Austin earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics through Trinity and Cambridge College. It was later until 2010 where Austin received a Ph.D. in Mathematics through the University of California in Los Angeles.

Career

Austin’s career began in 2006. He was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, and in New England. Starting slow, Austin was either a research assistant or teaching assistant at various institutes such as UCLA, Brown University and Courant Institute of Mathematics and Sciences. It wasn’t until 2019 when Austin was employed as a full professor of Mathematics at UCLA.

Achievements

In 2020 Austin was awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, an honor for the Breakthrough Prize that recognizes scientists and mathematicians from all over the world. In other words, the “Oscars” for the science and math fields. Austin was awarded in particular of his work in multiple contributions to ergodic theory. However, the key reason for this was his success in finding the solution to the weak Pinsker conjecture.

References

[1] Timothy Derek Austin, Tim Austin Curriculum Vitae. Los Angeles, California PDF 2019 [2] https://breakthroughprize.org/.