Denis Auroux

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Denis Auroux
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Professor Auroux in 2010
BornApril 1977 (age 47)
NationalityFrench
Alma mater École normale supérieure
Paris Diderot University
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Paris-Sud University
École polytechnique
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University

Denis Auroux (born April 1977) [1] is a French mathematician working in geometry and topology.

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Education and career

Auroux was admitted in 1993 to the École normale supérieure. In 1994, he received a licentiate and maîtrise in mathematics from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7). In 1995, he received a licentiate in physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) and passed the agrégation . In 1995, he received a master's degree in mathematics from Paris-Sud University with a thesis on Seiberg-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds. In 1999, he received his doctorate from the École polytechnique with supervisors Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and Mikhael Gromov for a thesis on structure theorems for compact symplectic manifolds via almost-complex techniques. In 2003, he completed his habilitation at Paris-Sud University with a thesis on approximately holomorphic techniques and monodromy invariants in symplectic topology.

As a postdoc, he was a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2002, where he became an assistant professor in 2002, an associate professor in 2004 (tenured in 2006), and a professor in 2009 (on leave from 2009 to 2011). From 2009 to 2018, he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Since Fall 2018, he has been at Harvard University, [2] where he taught Math 55, two-semester honors undergraduate course on algebra and analysis. [3]

His research deals with symplectic geometry, low-dimensional topology, and mirror symmetry. [4] [5]

In 2002, he received the Prix Peccot from the Collège de France. In 2005, he received a Sloan Research Fellowship. [2] He was an invited speaker in 2010 with talk Fukaya Categories and bordered Heegaard-Floer Homology [6] at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad and in 2004 at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm. [7]

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References

  1. https://people.math.harvard.edu/~auroux/cv.html
  2. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae - Denis Auroux". Mathematics Department, Harvard University.
  3. Yefremova, Anastasia (May 5, 2022). "Demystifying Math 55". Department of Mathematics, Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 8, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  4. "Denis Auroux". Mathematics Department, Harvard University.
  5. "Denis Auroux - Papers". Mathematics Department, Harvard University. (with links to articles in pdf format)
  6. Auroux, D. (2010). "Fukaya categories and bordered Heegaard-Floer homology". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010). Vol. II. New Delhi: Hindustan Book Agency. pp. 917–941. arXiv: 1003.2962 . doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0080. ISBN   978-981-4324-30-4. S2CID   45582260.
  7. Auroux, Denis (2004). "Some open questions about symplectic 4-manifolds, singular plane curves, and braid group factorizations". arXiv: math/0410119 . (published in 2005 in Proceedings of the European Congress of Mathematics: Stockholm, June 27–July 2, 2004)