Ilijas Farah

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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] His research focuses on applications of logic to operator algebras.[3][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]

Advisory work[]

, one of his former PhD students, was awarded the Franco Montagna prize (2017) and Sacks prize (2015)[11] for best PhD dissertation in logic.[12]

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. ^ "Ilijas Farah". Google Scholar. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. ^ , Wikipedia, August 19, 2020, retrieved March 27, 2021
  5. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Ilijas Farah
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b 1997 Sacks Prize winners
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b York University Ilijas Farah Home page
  8. ^ Student and faculty member achievements celebrated at annual ceremony, York University, March 24, 2017
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ Ilijas Farah: Logic and operator algebras, Seoul ICM, August 2014
  11. ^ ASL Sacks Prize Recipients 2015
  12. ^ Martino Lupini Awards & grants

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