Denis Auroux

Denis Auroux completed his studies in France, where he obtained his PhD in 1999 from Ecole Polytechnique. After his PhD he moved to MIT where he was a Moore Instructor from 1999 to 2002, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics from 2002 to 2004, and an Associate Professor from 2004 to 2009, before moving to UC Berkeley in 2009 and then to Harvard University in 2018. His research work is in the field of symplectic geometry, with a particular focus on the homological mirror symmetry conjecture. Prof. Auroux taught 18.02 five times from 2003 to 2008, including the Fall 2007 lectures which were filmed and preserved for posterity by MIT's OpenCourseWare project.

Denis Auroux Photo Credit: George Bergman