Plenary lecture

Day 1 (Tuesday 22 April) @ 10:10 – 11:00

Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto)

Biography

Jacob Tsimerman is professor at the University of Toronto specialised in number theory and related areas. He studied at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in math. He obtained his PhD from Princeton in 2011 under the guidance of Peter Sarnak.

Together with Jonathan Pila, Tsimerman demonstrated the André–Oort conjecture for Siegel modular varieties. Later, he completed the proof of the full André-Oort conjecture for all moduli spaces of abelian varieties by reducing the problem to the averaged Colmez conjecture which was proved by Xinyi Yuan and Shou-Wu Zhang as well as independently by Andreatta, Goren, Howard and Madapusi-Pera.

In 2018, Tsimerman was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2019, he was awarded the Coxeter–James Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society. He is also one of winners of the 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was awarded for “outstanding work in analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry, including breakthroughs on the André-Oort and Griffiths conjectures”. In 2023, Tsimerman received the Ostrowski Prize