{"id":5601,"date":"2013-05-09T07:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:22:53","slug":"simonsfellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=5601","title":{"rendered":"Cherednik named Simons Fellow in Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Cherednik, a mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the recipient of a 2013 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/simonsfoundation.org\/\">Simons Foundation<\/a>, based in New York City, funds a variety of programs that advance research in mathematics and the basic sciences.\u00a0 Fellows are selected by a committee of distinguished scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Cherednik is the Austin M. Carr Distinguished Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/math.unc.edu\/\">Mathematics<\/a> in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a member of the Carolina faculty since 1992. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in calculus, differential equations and special functions. He is the recipient of a 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Cherednik spent the spring 2012 semester as Fulbright-Israel Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Engineering at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>He has conducted path-breaking work on Hecke algebras and made important contributions to a number of fields, including number theory, soliton theory, theory of knots and harmonic analysis. 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