Alexander Varchenko

Education Doctor of Sci. Degree, Mathematics, Moscow State University , 1982 Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1974 (Adviser : Vladimir Arnol'd) M.S., Moscow State University, 1971 Kolmogorov High School of Mathematics and Physics (18 Internat), 1966

Area of Specialization Topology Algebraic Geometry Mathematical Physics

Academic Positions University of North Carolina, Ernest Eliel Professor, 1991- Moscow Institute of Gas and Oil, Professor of Mathematics, 1984-1990 Moscow State University, Researcher, 1974-1984

Visiting Positions Max-Planck-Institute, Bonn, May-June, 2011 IHES, France, July, 2011 Centro di Ricerca Matematica, Pisa, June 2010 Unversite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, January-May 2010 Hokkaido University, Sapporo, July 2009 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, May-June 2008 Unversite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, May-June 2006 IHES, France, July, 2004 ETH, Zurich, June, 2003 Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, July, 2002 MIT, Boston, January-May, 2002 Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, May, July, 2001 ETH, Zurich, June, 2001 ETH, Zurich, June, 2000 ETH, Zurich, June, 1999 Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, August, 1998 ETH, Zurich, June-July, 1998 ETH, Zurich, June, 1997 IHES, Paris, May, 1997 Harvard University, Boston, March, 1997 ETH, Zurich, January, 1997 Institute of H.Poincare, Paris, December, 1996 IHES, Paris, July, 1996 Harvard University, Boston, April, 1998 MSRI, Berkeley, January-February, 1996 University Paris 6, Paris, May, 1995 University of Tokyo, Tokyo, June-July, 1994 University of Leiden, Leiden, May, 1994 RIMS, Kyoto, June, 1993 IHES, Paris, May, 1993 Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, July 1992 ETH, Zurich, June, 1992 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1990-1991 Bonn University, Bonn, January-March, 1977

Some Conferences and Talks Plenary talk, Annual Meeting of the AMS, San-Antonio, January 1993 Plenary talk, ICM-90, Kyoto A talk at Arbeitstagung, Bonn, 1975 Sectional talk, ICM-74, Vancouver

Awards Prize of Moscow Mathematical Society, 1973 Ernest Eliel Professor, 1991 NSF grants, 1992-1994; 1995-1997; 1998-2002; 2003-2006; 2006-2011, 2011- CRDF grant, 2002-2004 The Clay Mathematics Institute Book Fellow for 2002 In 2008 I had been awarded the "Chaires d'Excellence Pierre de Fermat'', an award developed to attract top scientists in any discipline to spend time in France