Denis Auroux

Professor of Mathematics

Denis Auroux received the Maîtrice in mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure, Paris VII in 1994, the Licence in physics from Paris VI in 1995, the Diploma in mathematics from the Université de Paris Sud, 1995, and the Ph.D. from École Polytechnique in 1999. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and Misha Gromov were his doctoral advisors. He completed the habilitation at the University of Paris Sud in 2003. He came to MIT as a CLE Moore instructor in 1999 and joined the MIT mathematics faculty in 2002. He was promoted to associate professor in 2004 and tenured in 2006. Professor Auroux's research interests are in the fields of symplectic topology and mirror symmetry. His distinctions include the Prix de Thèse, École Polytechnique, 1999; the Prix Peccot & Cours Peccot, Collège de France, January 2002, and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2005. He received the MIT School of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006.

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