Leonid Polterovich

Leonid Polterovich (Hebrew: ליאוניד פולטרוביץ‎; Russian: Леонид В. Полтерович; born 30 August 1963) is a Russian-Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University. His research field includes symplectic geometry and dynamical systems.

Leonid Polterovich
Born (1963-08-30) 30 August 1963
Moscow, USSR
NationalityRussian-Israeli
Alma materMoscow State University (1984)
Tel Aviv University
Awards1998 Erdős Prize
1996 EMS Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisorYakov G. Sinai
Vitali Milman
Doctoral students

A native of Moscow, Polterovich earned his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University in 1984. He moved to Israel after the collapse of communism, earning his doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1990. In 1996, he was awarded the EMS Prize,[1] and in 1998 the Erdős Prize. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[2] He was a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Polterovich, Leonid (1998). "Geometry on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 401–410.


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