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Antonio Montalbán Receives AMS Centennial Fellowship

April 8, 2009

Antonio Montalban

Providence, RI---Antonio Montalbán of the University of Chicago has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. The fellowship is presented annually to outstanding mathematicians who have held the doctoral degree for between three and twelve years. The primary selection criterion is excellence in research achievement. The stipend for the 2009-2010 Centennial Fellowship is US$75,000, plus an expense allowance of US$7,500. Fellows also receive a complimentary one-year AMS membership.

Antonio Montalbán got his bachelor's degree at the Universidad de la República, which is in Uruguay, where he grew up. He then got his Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell University under the supervision of Richard A. Shore. Montalbán was a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago for a year and also did a one-year postdoc at the University of Victoria Wellington. Since 2007, he has been an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Montalbán's research field is logic, more specifically computability theory. In general, he is interested in measuring the complexity of proofs and constructions from classical mathematics. He plans to use his fellowship to visit Berkeley, among other places, and to work on finding the proof-theoretic strength of Laver's theorem and other theorems that seem to require proofs of particularly high complexity.

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