Clay Research Fellows

2009 Clay Research Fellow announced

Sucharit Sarkar has been selected for a Clay Research Fellowship beginning July 1, 2009. Mr. Sarkar was born in 1983 in Calcutta, India. He received his BMath degree from Indian Statistical Institute in 2005 and will receive his PhD from Princeton University in 2009 under the guidance of Zoltan Szabo. His research area is low dimensional topology. He is currently working on Heegaard Floer homology for three-manifolds and knots inside three-manifolds.

The Clay Research Fellowship provides a young mathematician employment under ideal conditions for a period of two to five years. A Fellow may work at the location that best suits his or her research; support for travel and research expenses, as well as provisions for collaboration, are available in addition to a generous salary.

The primary selection criteria for the Fellowship are the exceptional quality of the candidate's research and the candidate's promise to become a mathematical leader. Most recent appointees were finishing graduate students at the time of their selection, though other mathematicians under age thirty occasionally have been appointed. Selection decisions are made by the Scientific Advisory Board based on the nominating materials described below.

Nominations

To nominate a candidate, please send the following items by October 30 for full consideration:

to:

Clay Mathematics Institute
One Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

or to nominations@claymath.org, attention of Gigi Patel. Incomplete nominations will not be considered. You may contact Ms. Patel at 617 995 2602.

Clay Research Fellows are selected for their research achievements and their potential to become leaders in research mathematics. All are recent Ph.D.'s, and most are selected as they complete their thesis work. Terms range from one to five years, with most given in the upper range of this interval. Current and past fellows are listed on the right.

2009 Research Fellow

Current Research Fellows

Past Research Fellows