About Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya (born June 4, 1966) is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She serves as the Richard and Rhonda Goldman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is best known for pioneering nonperturbative methods in quasiperiodic operators, and for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila. == Education and career == Jitomirskaya was born to a Jewish family in Kharkiv, in the Soviet Union, and grew up in her home city. Both her mother, Valentina Borok, and her father, Yakov Zhitomirskii, were professors of mathematics. Her undergraduate studies were at Moscow State University, where she was a student of, among others, Vladimir Arnold and Yakov Sinai. She obtained her Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1991 under the supervision of Yakov Sinai. After joining the University of California, Irvine mathematics department in 1991 as a part-time lecturer, she remained on the faculty there until 2023, rising to full professor in 2000. She also served as the inaugural Elaine M. Hubbard Chair Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2022 to 2023, before joining the University of California, Berkeley in the Fall 2023 as a distinguished chair and professor. == Honors == In 2005, she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, "for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization".
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