Victor Guillemin

Victor William Guillemin (born 1937 in Boston) is an American mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of symplectic geometry, and he has also made contributions to the fields of microlocal analysis, spectral theory, and mathematical physics.

Education and career Guillemin obtained a B.A. at Harvard University in 1959, as well as an M. A. at the University of Chicago in 1960.

He worked at Columbia University from 1963 to 1966 and then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as assistant professor. He became associate professor in 1969 and full professor in 1973. in 1988 a Guggenheim fellowship and in 1996 a Humboldt fellowship. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984 and of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985. In 2003, he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.

Research Guillemin worked in several areas in analysis and geometry, including microlocal analysis, symplectic group actions, and spectral theory of elliptic operators on manifolds.

Family Victor Guillemins's uncle Ernst Guillemin was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, his younger brother Robert Charles Guillemin was a sidewalk artist, his brother-in-law Ray Raphael is an historian, and his daughter Karen Guillemin is a Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon.

Selected publications reprinted in 1990 as an on-line book