Helmut Hofer — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Recipient of the 1999 Ostrowski Prize and 2013 Heinz Hopf Prize
Faculty Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, since 2009
Co-founder of the area of symplectic topology
Editor of Annals of Mathematics
Co-author of 'Symplectic invariants and Hamiltonian dynamics' (2011)

Biography

Helmut Hermann W. Hofer, born February 28, 1956, is a German-American mathematician recognized as one of the founders of the field of symplectic topology. Since 2009, he has been a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His current research focuses on symplectic geometry, dynamical systems, and partial differential equations.

Hofer's contributions to mathematics include the development of Hofer geometry.