Ilijas Farah

Ilijas Farah (born February 18, 1966 in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia) is a Canadian-Serbian[1] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at York University in Toronto and at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.[2] His research focuses on applications of logic to operator algebras.[3][4]

Ilijas Farah

Career

He received his BSc and MSc in 1988 and 1992 respectively from the Belgrade University and his PhD in 1997 from the University of Toronto.[5][6] He is now a Research Chair in Logic and Operator Algebras at York University, Toronto. Before moving to York University he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University (1997–99), a Hill Assistant Professor at Rutgers University (1999–2000), and a professor at CUNY–Graduate center and College of Staten Island (2000–02).[7]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions
  • Sacks prize for the best doctorate in Mathematical Logic, 1997[6]
  • Governor General's Gold Medal for one of the two best doctorates at the University of Toronto, 1998
  • The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for the best dissertation in engineering, medicine and the natural sciences in Canada, 1998.
  • Dean's award for outstanding research, York University, 2006.[7]
  • Faculty Excellence in Research Award (Established Research Award), Faculty of Science, York University, 2017[8]

Professor Farah was an invited speaker at the ICM, Seoul 2014, section on Logic and Foundations, where he presented his work on applications of logic to operator algebras.[9][10]

Advisory work

Martino Lupini, one of his former PhD students, was awarded the Franco Montagna prize (2017) and Sacks prize (2015)[11] for best PhD dissertation in logic.[12]

Sources
  1. On Contribution of Serbian Mathematicians to Set Theory
  2. Samuel Coskey and Ilijas Farah: Automorphisms of corona algebras, and group cohomology (Additional information), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, March 19, 2014
  3. "Ilijas Farah". Google Scholar. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. "Calkin algebra", Wikipedia, August 19, 2020, retrieved March 27, 2021
  5. Mathematics Genealogy Project: Ilijas Farah
  6. 1997 Sacks Prize winners
  7. York University Ilijas Farah Home page
  8. Student and faculty member achievements celebrated at annual ceremony, York University, March 24, 2017
  9. Jang,Sun Young; Kim, Young Rock; Lee, Dae-Woong; Yie, Ikkwon (ed): Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul 2014, VOLUME II, Invited Lectures, p. 15
  10. Ilijas Farah: Logic and operator algebras, Seoul ICM, August 2014
  11. ASL Sacks Prize Recipients 2015
  12. Martino Lupini Awards & grants
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