Sergey Bobkov (Russian: Cергей Германович Бобков; born March 15, 1961) is a mathematician. Currently Bobkov is a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Sergey Bobkov

He was born in Vorkuta (Komi Republic, Russia) and graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in Leningrad State University. In 1988 he earned PhD in Mathematics and Physics (under direction of Vladimir N. Sudakov, Steklov Institute of Mathematics) and in 1997 earned his Doctor of Science. During 1998–2000 Bobkov held positions at Syktyvkar State University, Russia.[1] From 1995 to 1996 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany. He spent the summers of 2001 and 2002 as an EPSRC Fellow at Imperial College London, UK.[2] Bobkov was awarded a Simons Fellowship (2012) and Humboldt Research Award (2014).[3][4]

Bobkov is known for research in mathematics on the border of probability theory, analysis, convex geometry and information theory. He has achieved important results about isoperimetric problems, concentration of measure and other high-dimensional phenomena.

Bobkov's inequality is named after him.

References

  1. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Sergey G. Bobkov" (PDF). University of Minnesota School of Mathematics. November 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sergey Bobkov". Current long-term visitors. Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Awardees: Mathematics". Humboldt Network. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  4. ↑ "2012 Simons Fellows Awardees: Mathematics". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
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