Tomer Schlank

Tomer Moshe Schlank (Hebrew: תומר משה שלנק; born 1982) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at The University of Chicago.

He received his PhD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January, 2013, working under the supervision of Ehud de Shalit.

Together with Robert Burklund, Jeremy Hahn, and Ishan Levy, he disproved the telescope conjecture for all heights greater than 1 and for all primes.

The disproof made use of his work on ambidexterity of the T(n)-local category and cyclotomic extensions of the T(n)-local sphere with Ben-Moshe, Carmeli, and Yanovski.

He wrote his thesis, titled "Applications of homotopy theory to the study of obstructions to existence of rational points",[7] on this topic.

Schlank is known for the breadth of his work and for bringing together seemingly unrelated concepts from different fields to solve problems.