The 2023 André Aisenstadt Prize is awarded to Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman (University of Toronto), and Elina Robeva (University of British Columbia).
Created in 1991 by the CRM, the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics, which includes a scholarship and a medal, recognizes outstanding research results in pure or applied mathematics by a young Canadian mathematician.
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman received his PhD from MIT in 2015 under the supervision of Igor Rodnianski. After a NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University (2015-2018), he continued there as Assistant Professor before joining the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 2021.
Professor Shlapentokh-Rothman works primarily on the mathematics of general relativity. His primary contributions concern the dynamical development of singularities associated to black holes; the decay of scalar and higher spin waves on black hole backgrounds; the existence of time-periodic “breather” solutions; and the understanding of weak null singularities in black hole interiors with matter present. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2021.