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Laurent Saloff-Coste

French mathematicianborn 1958

Supervised 4 doctoral students at Cornell University between 2024 and 2026; Wikidata names Nikolaos Varopoulos as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Laurent Saloff-Coste, pictured

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Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 33 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 29 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage11

committee member, not advisor