Robert Ghrist

Robert W. Ghrist (born March 1969 in Euclid , Ohio ) is an American mathematician .

Ghrist received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo in Toledo (Ohio) in 1991 and then studied mathematics at Cornell University with a master's degree in 1994 and a doctorate in 1995 with Philip Holmes ( The link of periodic orbits of a flow ). From 1996 to 1998 he was RH Bing Instructor at the University of Texas and from 1998 Assistant Professor and from 2002 Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology . In 2002 he became Associate Professor and in 2004 Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 2007 he was there at the Information Trust Institute and from 2008 Andrea Mitchell Penn Integrating Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania .

In 1995 he was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and in 2000 at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. He deals with the application of topological methods to dynamic systems , for example in robots and in hydrodynamics , but also in information systems such as sensor networks.

In 2013 he received the Chauvenet Prize for Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data . In 2004 he received a Presidential Early Career Award. In 2014 he gave the Gauss lecture of the German Mathematicians Association.

Fonts

• with Philip Holmes, M. Sullivan: Knots and Links in Three-dimensional Flows , Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1654, Springer Verlag 1997
• Editor with M. Farber, M. Burger, D. Koditschek: Topology and Robotics , Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2007

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Ghrist in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Vin de Silva, Robert Ghrist Homological Sensor Networks , Notices AMS, January 2007
3. ^ Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 45, 2008, pp. 61-75, online