Prof. Dr. Grigory Mikhalkin

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeometry, Topology
Keywordstropical geometry, amoeba, alga, Harnack variety, large complex unit

Current contact address

CountrySwitzerland
CityCarouge (GE)
InstitutionUniversite de Geneve
InstituteDepartement de Mathematiques

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter M. ZieglerInstitut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2007

Programme(s)

2006Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Grigory Mikhalkin is an exceptional mathematician who has built novel and striking bridges between real algebraic geometry, discrete geometry, topology, and complex analysis. He has pioneered the new discipline of tropical geometry which provides far-reaching combinatorial methods to handle algebraic geometric problems, such as counting the number of curves with given properties. In his research stay at TU Berlin, Grigory Mikhalkin intends to advance the theory of higher-dimensional tropical curves at the interface of discrete and algebraic geometry.