University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Awards
Chauvenet Prize (2011)
Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
Doob Prize (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
MIT
Thesis
The Mordell-Weil theorem, rigidity, and pairings for Drinfeld modules (1994)
Doctoral advisor
Kenneth Alan Ribet
Doctoral students
Kirsten Eisenträger
William A. Stein
Bianca Viray
Website
math.mit.edu/~poonen/
Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability[2] and computer science.[3]
He has edited two books.[4][5]
He is the founding managing editor of the journal Algebra & Number Theory,[6] and serves also on the editorial boards of Involve: A Journal of Mathematics[7] and the A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series.[8]
^"Profile". MIT Mathematics. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
^Amir Dembo, Qi-Man Shao, Bjorn Poonen, and Ofer Zeitouni, "Random polynomials with few or no real zeros", Journal of the American Mathematical Society15 (2002), 857–892.
^Poonen, Bjorn (1993). "The Worst Case in Shellsort and Related Algorithms". Journal of Algorithms. 15 (1). Elsevier BV: 101–124. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.138.295. doi:10.1006/jagm.1993.1032. ISSN 0196-6774.
^Kedlaya, Kiran S.; Poonen, Bjorn; Vakil, Ravi (March 24, 2011). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985–2000. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-827-1.
^"Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties". Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 226. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. 2004. doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-8170-8. ISBN 978-1-4612-6471-2. ISSN 0743-1643.
^"Algebra & Number Theory". MSP. May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
^"Involve". msp.org. May 2, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor...
postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology supervised by BjornPoonen, and in 2016, Krieger was hired as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge...
residents include Kristin Goss, Hendrik Hertzberg, Nicholas Kristof, BjornPoonen, Peter Sagal, Andrew Tobias, Chris Wallace, and Fernando Zobel de Ayala...
seven others (Don Coppersmith (1968–1971), Arthur Rubin (1970–1973), BjornPoonen (1985–1988), Ravi Vakil (1988–1991), Reid W. Barton (2001–2004), Daniel...
contingent on the validity of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. BjornPoonen has conjectured that Fc(x) cannot have rational periodic points of any...
2007 Arizona Winter School, American Mathematical Society 2008 with BjornPoonen, Ravi Vakil The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000:...
cubes. The case n = 33 {\displaystyle n=33} of this problem was used by BjornPoonen as the opening example in a survey on undecidable problems in number...
2008 Andrew Granville 2009 Harold P. Boas 2010 Brian J. McCartin 2011 BjornPoonen 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick...
Guido De Philippis Vincent Pilloni Jan von Plato [de] Alexei Poltoratski BjornPoonen Mihnea Popa Alexander Postnikov Rafael Potrie Dipendra Prasad Feliks...
the University of California, Berkeley in 2010; her thesis advisor was BjornPoonen. After receiving her degree, Viray became a Tamarkin Assistant Professor...
"Rational points on algebraic varieties", Birkhäuser 2001 as editor with BjornPoonen: Arithmetic of higher dimensional algebraic varieties , Birkhäuser 2004...
Mathematics 181 (2015), 587–621 doi:10.4007/annals.2015.181.2.4 Jennifer Park, BjornPoonen, John Voight, Melanie Matchett Wood, A heuristic for boundedness of ranks...
varieties. Baker, Matthew; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Enrique; Gonzalez, Josep; Poonen, Bjorn (2005), "Finiteness results for modular curves of genus at least 2"...
Kurt Mahler was concerned with the problem, as were Andrew Odlyzko, BjornPoonen and Peter Borwein. By using companion matrices, each of these restricted-coefficient...
Humanities English Literature Dimitris N. Politis Natural Sciences Statistics BjornPoonen Natural Sciences Mathematics Bill Porter Humanities Translation Endi...
Menasco (2017, ISBN 978-1-4704-3660-5) 186 Rational Points on Varieties, BjornPoonen (2017, ISBN 978-1-4704-3773-2) 187 Introduction to Global Analysis: Minimal...
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