Victor W. Guillemin | |
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Born | 1937 (age 86–87) |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Children | Karen Guillemin |
Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (1969) Guggenheim Fellowship (1988) Humboldt fellowship (1996) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2003) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Differential geometry |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Theory of Finite G-Structures (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Shlomo Sternberg |
Doctoral students | Ana Cannas da Silva Rebecca Goldin Marty Golubitsky Tara S. Holm Allen Knutson Gunther Uhlmann |
Victor William Guillemin (born 1937 in Boston) is an American mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of symplectic geometry, and he has also made contributions to the fields of microlocal analysis, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. [1][2]