About the Speaker

Professor Robert Zimmer became the President of the University of Chicago in 2006, after serving as Provost at Brown University since 2002. Prior to that, he had been a faculty and administrator for 25 years in Chicago, where he was Chairman of the Mathematics Department, Deputy Provost, and Vice President for Research and for Argonne National Laboratory.

Professor Zimmer received his PhD in mathematics from Harvard in 1975. Specializing in various fields of geometry, he joined the Chicago faculty in 1977 and became Professor in 1980. He held the title of Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at Chicago before leaving for Brown, where he was the Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics in addition to being Provost. An author of two books and more than 80 research articles, Professor Zimmer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also serves on the US President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
 

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