Pierre Milman

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Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967. Later in 1975 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tel Aviv after an interlude of several years as Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics and then Solid State Physics in Moscow.

[edit] Positions

In 1975, he came to the University of Toronto as Lecturer and Research Associate, and after holding a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Purdue University from 1978 to 1980, he returned to the University of Toronto, first as an NSERC University Research Fellow until 1985, then as Associate Professor and, since 1986, as Professor.

[edit] Awards

In 1997, Dr. Milman was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 2000 he was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship.

In 2005 he was awarded the Jeffery-Williams Prize.

[edit] Family

Math runs in the Milman family. His father is the mathematician David Milman who devised the Krein-Milman theorem. His brother is the mathematician Vitali Milman.