Jeff Cheeger
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| Born | 1 December 1943 Brooklyn, USA |
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| Residence | USA  |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Mathematician |
| Institution | New York University |
| Alma Mater | Harvard (B.A.) Princeton (M.S., Ph.D) |
| Academic Advisor | Salomon Bochner |
| Notable Students | Arthur Chou Xian-Zhe Dai Aparna Dar Yu Ding Douglas Elerath Harvey Hensley Zhong-dong Liu Ping-Ching Lue Alireza Ranjbar-Motlagh Xiaochun Rong Christina Sormani DaGang Yang Shun-Hui Zhu |
| Known for | Differential geometry |
Jeff Cheeger (b. December 1, 1943, Brooklyn, New York City), is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in New York City. His main interests are differential geometry and its applications to topology and analysis.
[edit] Biography
He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1964. He graduated from Princeton University with an M.S. in 1966 and with a Ph.D. in 1967.
He worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant at Princeton from 1966-1967. He was an N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor from 1967-1968. He was an assistant professor from 1968 to 1969 at the University of Michigan. He was an associate professor from 1969-1971 at SUNY at Stony Brook. Cheeger was also a professor at SUNY from 1971 to 1985. He was a leading professor from 1985 to 1992. He was a distingiushed professor at SUNY from 1990 until 1992. Cheeger is a Silver Professor at CIMS, NYU.
Professor Cheeger has also had a number of visiting positions in Brazil (1971), the Institute for Advanced Study (1972, 1977, 1978, 1995), Harvard University (1972), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (1984-1985) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institues (1985).
Professor Cheeger has supervised at least 13 doctoral theses and three postdocs. He has served as a member of several AMS committees and NSF panels.
