Paul Biran
Paul Ian Biran ( Hebrew פאול בירן; * February 25, 1969 in Bucharest ) is an Israeli mathematician who studies symplectic geometry and topology and algebraic geometry .
Biran came to Israel in 1971. After five years of military service from 1987 to 1992, he studied at Tel Aviv University (while also working as a computer programmer at CFAX), where he received his doctorate in 1997 under Leonid Polterovich (Geometry of symplectic packing). 1997 to 1999 he was Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University . He was then a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, from 2005 associate professor and from 2008 professor. Paul Biran has been a full professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich since 2009 .
In his dissertation he solved the packing problem for symplectic 4-manifolds (already treated by Mikhail Gromov and others) (he proved that these can be completely filled with spheres of the same diameter, if the number of spheres is large enough). He also introduced new decomposition techniques for symplectic manifolds.
In 1998 he received the Landau Research Award. In 2003 he received the Oberwolfach Prize . In 2004 he received the EMS Prize (lecture: Symplectic topology and algebraic families ). In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Beijing ( Geometry of symplectic intersections ). In 2006 he received the Erdős Prize . In 2013 he was elected to the Leopoldina .
Web links
- current contact page of ETH
- (outdated) homepage at Tel Aviv University ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Laudation on the occasion of the Oberwolfach Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Paul Biran (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biran, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Biran, Paul Ian (full name); פאול בירן (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |