Leonid Polterovich

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Leonid Polterovich
Born (1963-08-30) 30 August 1963 (age 60)
NationalityRussian-Israeli
Alma materMoscow State University
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 studentsMeike Akveld
Paul Biran
Dan Mangoubi
Yaron Ostrover
Gabriel Ben-Simon

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.

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. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago.

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