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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Vladimir Turaev
- Vladimir Georgievich Turaev (???????? ?????????? ??????, born in 1954) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in topology. Turaev received in 1979 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics his Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) under Oleg Viro.
- Turaev was a professor at the University of Strasbourg and then became a professor at Indiana University.
- In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Turaev's research deals with low-dimensional topology, quantum topology, and knot theory and their interconnections with quantum field theory.
- In 1991 Reshetikhin and Turaev published a mathematical construction of new topological invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds and framed links in these manifolds, corresponding to a mathematical implementation of ideas in quantum field theory published by Witten; the invariants are now called Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (or Reshetikhin-Turaev) invariants.
- In 1992 Turaev and Viro introduced a new family of invariants for 3-manifolds by using state sums computed on triangulations of manifolds; these invariants are now called Turaev-Viro invariants. In 1990 Turaev was an Invited Speaker with talk State sum models in low dimensional topology at the ICM in Kyoto.
- In 2016 he shared, with Alexis Virelizier, the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for their monograph Monoidal categories and topological field theory.
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