Yakov Eliashberg

Awards Eliashberg received the "Young Mathematician" Prize from the Leningrad Mathematical Society in 1972. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986, 1998 and 2006 (plenary lecture). In 1995 he was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 2001 Eliashberg was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry from the AMS for his work in symplectic and contact topology, in particular for his proof of the symplectic rigidity and the development of 3-dimensional contact topology.

In 2002 Eliashberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the US and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He also was a member of the Selection Committee in mathematical sciences of the Shaw Prize. He received a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the ENS Lyon in 2009 and from the University of Uppsala in 2017.

In 2013 Eliashberg shared with Helmut Hofer the Heinz Hopf Prize from the ETH, Zurich, for their pioneering research in symplectic topology. In 2016 Yakov Eliashberg was awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from the Swedish Academy of Sciences for the development of contact and symplectic topology and groundbreaking discoveries of rigidity and flexibility phenomena.

In 2020 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Simon K. Donaldson). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. For 2023 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (jointly with Claire Voisin).

Major publications

Books Eliashberg, Yakov M.; Thurston, William P. Confoliations. University Lecture Series, 13. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998. x+66 pp. Eliashberg, Y.; Mishachev, N. Introduction to the h-principle. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 48. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2002. xviii+206 pp. Cieliebak, Kai; Eliashberg, Yakov. From Stein to Weinstein and back. Symplectic geometry of affine complex manifolds. American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, 59. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2012. xii+364 pp.