Vitali Milman#
| Membership Number: | 7138 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~milman/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- 1990 - 1995 Part-time Visiting Professor, Ohio-State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- 1989, 1992, 1996 Summer Visiting Professor, IHES, France
- 1989 Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station Texas, USA
- 1988 Visiting Professor, IAS Princeton, USA
- 1984 - 1985 Visiting Professor, IHES and University of Paris VI, France
- 1980 - 2007 Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- 1979 - 1980 Visiting Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting Professor, State University of New York at Albany, New York, USA
- 1973 - 1980 Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- 1961 - 1965 and 1965 - 1973, Institutes of Academy of Science, USSR
Fields of Scholarship
- Geometric functional analysis
- Banach space theory
- Duality
- Convex geometry
- High-dimensional geometry
- Concentration of measure phenomenon
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Special Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Absorption of Immi- grant (Olim) Scientists
- 2002 Landau Prize in Exact Science (field of mathematics)
- 2007 EMET Prize in Exact Science (field of mathematics)
- 2009 Humboldt Research award for the life achievement
- 2013 Elected ”Fellow of the American Mathematical Society”
- 1997 Pichorides Distinguished Lecturer, University of Crete, Crete
- 2006 Carl Stromberg Memorial Distinguished lecture, KSU
- 2007 CRM – University of Ottawa, Distinguished Lecture
- 2007, 2011 Ordway, Minneapolis, Distinguished Lecture
- 2008 MRI – Distinguished Lecture
- 2015 Special Lecture on Riviere-Fabes Symposium in Analysis
- 2024 Israel Prize in Mathematics
