Tom Ilmanen
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Tom Ilmanen has been full Professor for Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since January 1999. Tom Ilmanen, whose family stems from Connecticut, Louisiana, the Netherlands, and Finland, was born on June 11, 1961, in Washington, D.C. He studied mathematics at Haverford College and the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. under Professor L. C. Evans in 1991. He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, followed by three years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1993. In 1995, he took up a post as Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, where he won a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Thereafter he spent eighteen months at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Leipzig.
Research Interest
Geometry; Partial differential equations; The calculus of variations.
