Bernard Shiffman (born 23 June 1942) is an American mathematician, specializing in

complex geometry In mathematics, complex geometry is the study of geometry, geometric structures and constructions arising out of, or described by, the complex numbers. In particular, complex geometry is concerned with the study of space (mathematics), spaces su ...

and analysis of

complex manifold In differential geometry and complex geometry, a complex manifold is a manifold with a ''complex structure'', that is an atlas (topology), atlas of chart (topology), charts to the open unit disc in the complex coordinate space \mathbb^n, such th ...

Education and career

Shiffman received in 1964 from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT) a bachelor's degree and in 1968 from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

a PhD under

Shiing-Shen Chern Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geome ...

with thesis ''On the removal of singularities in several complex variables''. Shiffman was at MIT a C.L.E. Moore Instructor from 1968 to 1970 and at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

an assistant professor from 1970 to 1973. At

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

he was from 1973 to 1977 an associate professor and is from 1977 a full professor; he was the chair of the department of mathematics from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2012 to 2014. He has held visiting positions in the US, France, Germany, and Sweden. For the two academic years 1973–1975 Shiffman was a Sloan Research Fellow. From 1993 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of '' The American Journal of Mathematics''. He was elected a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in 2012. His father was the mathematician

Max Shiffman Max Shiffman (30 October 1914, New York City – 2 July 2000, Hayward, California) was an American mathematician, specializing in the calculus of variations, partial differential equations, (According to this article by Lax, "He gave an invited ad ...

Selected publications

Articles

* * * with Maurizio Cornalba: * with Reese Harvey: * (survey article, an expanded version of an invited address given at the Cambridge, Mass., meeting of the AMS on 25 October 1975) * with Robert E. Molzon and

Nessim Sibony Nessim Sibony (20 October 1947 – 30 October 2021) was a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of several complex variables and complex dynamics in higher dimension. Since 1981, he was professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay ...

: * with Shanyu Ji and

János Kollár János Kollár (born 7 June 1956) is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Professional career Kollár began his studies at the Eötvös University in Budapest and later received his PhD at Brandeis University in 1984 ...

: * with Alexander Russakovskii: * with Steven Zelditch: * with Pavel Bleher and S. Zelditch:
arXiv preprint
* with Michael R. Douglas and S. Zelditch:

Books

* with Andrew J. Sommese: ''Vanishing theories on complex manifolds'', Progress in Mathematics 56, Birkhäuser Verlag 1985.

References

External links

Home page for Shiffman at Johns Hopkins University
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Preprints from arXiv.org
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