Curriculum Vitae

Robert L. Bryant

17 Gauss Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-5070

(510) 642-0143 (office)
director at msri dot org (email)

Personal: Born: 1953
Place: Kipling, NC
Citizenship: US

Education

PhD	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1979
BS	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	1974

Areas of Research: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Differential Geometry

Areas of Interest: exterior differential systems
differential geometry
algebraic geometry
Finsler geometry

Professional Experience / Employment History

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: Director, August 01, 2007 – present

University of California at Berkeley: Professor, Mathematics, July 01, 2007 – present

Duke University: Senior Research Scientist, Mathematics, July 01, 2008 – present
J. M. Kreps Professor, Mathematics, July 1, 1988 – June 30, 2008
Arts and Sciences Professor, Mathematics, 1987–88

Rice University: Noah Harding Professor, Mathematics, 1986–88
Professor, Mathematics, 1982–86
Associate Professor, Mathematics, 1981–82
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1979–81

Visiting Positions: Nachdiplom Lecturer, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH-Z), November–December 2006; Samuel Eilenberg Professor, Columbia University, January–April 2004; Simons Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, August–December 2003; Clay Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, January–May 2002; Senior Visitor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, August–December 2001; Professor, Institute Elie Cartan, June 1998; Visitor, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Applicada, July–August 1996; Visitor, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, May 1995; Andre Aisenstadt Professor, Centre de Recherches Mathematique, October 1994; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, January–June 1994; Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, September–December 1993; Visitor, University of Adelaide, July–August 1993; Member, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Applicada, July–August 1990; W. R. Reynolds Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July–December 1987; Member, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Applicada, May 1986; Member, Institue des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, November 1985; Member, Max Planck Institut, October 1985; Professor, Duke University, August–December 1984; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, April–May 1983; Associate Professor, Harvard, August–December 1982; Member and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1979–80

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1979–80
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1982–84
Presidential Young Investigator 1984–89
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching 1992
MAA Southeastern Region Distinguished Teaching 1993
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2002–present
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2007–present
Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 2007–present
Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NCSU Alumni Association, November 2005

Major Grant Support: DMS-8352009
DMS-8601853
DMS-8905207
DMS-8996110
DMS-9205222
DMS-9505125
DMS-9870164
DMS-0103884
DMS-0604195
DMS-0848131
DMS-1105868

Conferences Organized: Member, Organizing Committee, Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar, 2008 – present; Member of Organizing Board, Annual East Coast Geometry Festival, 1990–2007; Conference Organizer, AIM Workshop on Calibrations, June 26, 2006 – June 30, 2006; Scientific Advisor on Organizing Committee, Singularities in Analysis, Geometry, and Topology: A Conference Honoring the Retirements of F. Reese Harvey and John Polking, November 11, 2005 – November 13, 2005; Member of organizing committee, International Symposium on Finsler Geometry, August 10, 2004 – August 14, 2004; co-Organizer, Oberwolfach Bi-Annual Differential Geometry in the Large, June 15, 2001 – May 31, 2004; co-Organizer, MSRI Year-Long Program in Geometry (2003–04), 2001–04

Professional Service

University Committee: Director (since 2000), Chamber Arts Society of Durham, September 1997 – July 2007; Faculty Representative, Harassment Grievance Board, July 2005 – June 2008; Member, Athletic Council Review Commitee, September 2006 – December 2006; Member (1st year), Chair (2nd year), Provost's Advisory Committee on Distinguished Professorships, September 2004 – August 2006; Member, Duke Academic Priorities Committee, Duke, 1999–2003; Committee member, Search Committee for Director of Program in Education, Duke University, 2002–03; Member, Duke Harrassment Grievance Board, 1998–2000; Committee Member, Bass Chair Advisory Committee, 1997–99; Member, Duke Curriculum Review Committee, 1997–99; Member, Provost's Advisory Committee on AP&T, 1995–98

Math Community Services: Exterior Member, Academic Council of the Institute Henri Poincare, July 2010 – present; Member, Board of Trustees of the Banff International Research Station, July 2009 – present; Member, International Committee for the National Mathematics Centre of Nigeria, January 2008 – present; Associate Editor, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, February 1, 2005 – present; Member, Communications in Analysis and Geometry Editorial Board, November 2002 – present; Member, Duke Mathematical Journal Editorial Board, 1997 – present; Deputy Chair, Chair, then Program Chair, Executive Committee of the Golden Section of the MAA, March 2008 – February 2011; Member, Differential Geometry and its Applications Editorial Board, May 1999 – August 2010; Vice President, American Mathematical Society, February 2007 – January 2010; Director, Park City/IAS Mathematics Institute, January 2007 – August 2009; Member, AMS Editorial Boards Committee, February 2006 – January 2009; Executive Committee Member, American Mathematical Society Council, 2000–04; Member, Harvard Board of Visitors, Harvard University, 2001–04; Council Member at Large, Council of the American Mathematical Society, January 1999 – March 2004; Chair, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Board of Trustees, March 2001 – March 2004; Member (Years 1&2), Chair (Years 3–6), AMS Committee on Publications, 1998–2004; Southeastern Section Lecturer, Mathematical Association of America, 2001–03; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Board of Trustees, March 1999 – February 2001; Director of the Undergraduate Program, IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, 1993–2000; Panel Member of Proposal Evaluators, Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), February–June 2000; Member, AMS Task Force on Membership, 1998–2000; Editor, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1992–97

Other: Academic member of the board of directors, The Vietnam Education Foundation, 2002–05

Doctoral Theses Directed: Abraham Smith, Integrability of PDE and GL(2,R)-structures on manifolds, (2009); Feng Xu, The geometry of SU(3) structures on manifolds, (2008); Dan Fox, Second order families of coassociative submanifolds, (2005); Marianty Ionel, Second order families of special Lagrangian4-folds in C⁴, (2002); Chris Moseley (UNC), The geometry of sub-Riemannian Engel 4-manifolds, (2001); Sung Ho Wang, Legendrian submanifold path geometry, (2001); Ben McKay, Duality and integrable systems of pseudoholomorphic curves, (1999); Chris Michael, Uniqueness of calibrated cycles using exterior differential systems, (1996); Kevin Foltinek, Quasilinear third-order scalar evolution equations and their conservation laws, (1996); Jeanne Clelland, Geometry of conservation laws for a class of parabolic PDE, (1996); Keener Hughen, The sub-Riemannian geometry of three-manifolds, (1995); Thomas Ivey, On solitons for the Ricci flow, (1992); Lucas Hsu, Calculus of variations via the Griffiths formalism, (1991); Robert McLean, Deformations and moduli of calibrated submanifolds, (1990); J. M. Landsberg, Minimal submanifolds defined by first order systems of PDE, (1990); Tim Murdoch (Rice), Twisted calibrations and the cone on the Veronese surface, (1988); Steven Wilkinson (Rice), Characterizing Gauss maps, (1984)

Professional Affiliations: American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
Association for Women in Mathematics
National Association of Mathematicians
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chamber Arts Society of Durham (Director emeritus)

Last modified: 2012/02/03