Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Currently at IHES, Mikhail Gromov is a French-Russian geometer with major contributions to modern mathematics over the last 25 years. Some of his most important contributions to modern geometry are in the following areas: Riemannian metrics, solutions of important problems in global Riemannian geometry, convergence of Riemannian manifolds, Gromov compactness principle, distance in abstract spaces, foundations of global symplectic geometry, J-holomorphic curves on symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants (of significant interest in modern quantum field theory), groups of polynomial growth and immersion theory.

Education

Academic career

• Assistant Professor from 1967 to 1974 at Leningrad University.
• Permanent Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, since 1982. naturalized French citizen since 1992.
• Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, (in addition to IHES)
• Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Major Awards

• Wolf Prize in 1993
• The Balzan Prize in 1999
• Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1997
• Lobatchewski Medal in 1997
• Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences in 2002
• Abel Prize in 2009.