Current von Neumann Fellow
Robert Young
Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Affiliation
Mathematics
Field of Study
Quantitative Geometry
Home Institution
New York University
Website
Quantitative geometry studies how geometric objects behave under limits such as large or small scales. Robert Young is particularly interested in questions from geometric measure theory and quantitative rectifiability, such as how minimal and quasiminimal surfaces behave at many different scales.
Dates at IAS
von Neumann Fellow
School of Mathematics
– current
Degrees
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2007
Appointments
New York University
Associate Professor
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Assistant Professor
New York University
Courant Instructor
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Researcher