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Andrew Zucker can\u2019t remember a time when he didn\u2019t love math. Growing up in Greeley, Colorado, pursuing an education and career in mathematics just seemed natural to him.<\/p>\n
When he began his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, Zucker initially thought he wanted to study combinatorics, but quickly found that his heart was in logic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I took my first course in logic, it seemed to use all the parts of combinatorics that I liked while putting everything into a beautiful theoretical framework,\u201d said Zucker.<\/p>\n
As an undergraduate, Zucker made his first contributions to the field of topological dynamics, publishing in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae.<\/p>\n
After graduating from CalTech, Zucker came to Carnegie Mellon\u2019s highly regarded logic program to continue his studies. Under the tutelage of Associate Professor Clinton Conley and Professor James Cummings, he researched the interactions between logic, dynamics and descriptive set theory. As a doctoral student, he continued to make impressive contributions, particularly refining the connections between Ramsey theory and topological dynamics.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndy\u2019s work around metrizable universal minimal flows and the generic point problem are his most impressive contributions to the field, but they are not his only ones,\u201d said Conley. \u201cIn general, Andy has a very strong research program connecting combinatorial regularity principles with their dynamical counterparts and had remarkable success advancing this program while still a graduate student.\u201d<\/p>\n
His work was so impressive, Conley said, that it caught the attention of international experts in the field. When attending a set theory conference at the Centre International de Rencontres Math\u00e9matiques near Marseille, France, Conley heard Zucker\u2019s theorems referenced in two separate talks.<\/p>\n
After completing his Ph.D. program in the spring, Zucker moved to Paris. His graduate work earned him a prestigious National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship to study at the Universit\u00e9 Paris Diderot, which has a large logic group and brought him closer to collaborators in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, France.<\/p>\n
\u201cMathematically, I feel like I\u2019ve been more productive than ever, and I get to explore France and elsewhere in Europe, too,\u201d said Zucker.<\/p>\n
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