Department of Mathematics
2015-2016 Distinguished Lecture Series
Presents

Professor Andrei Okounkov
Professor of Mathematics
Columbia University

Public Lecture
Quantum groups and quantum K-theory
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
4:00-5:00pm
Rowland Hall, Room 306
Reception at 3:30pm in RH 408

Mathematics Colloquium
On some $q$-difference equations with remarkable monodromy
Thursday, May 12, 2016
4:00-5:00pm
Natural Sciences II, Room 1201
Reception at 3:30pm

About Professor Okounkov
Andrei Okounkov is a Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He received his PhD from Moscow State University in 1995. He has previously held faculty positions at Princeton and UC Berkeley. He received a Sloan Fellowship in 2000 and a Packard Fellowship in 2001. In 2004, he received the European Mathematical Society Prize. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006 and was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to bridging probability,representation theory and algebraic geometry