Alexander A. Voronov



Alexander A. Voronov (Александр Александрович Воронов) (born November 25, 1962) is a Russian-American mathematician specializing in mathematical physics, algebraic topology, and algebraic geometry. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota and a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.

Biography
Voronov graduated from Moscow State School 57 in 1980. He received an M.S. in Mathematics in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Moscow State University in 1988 under Yuri I. Manin. Alexander Voronov is known for his work on the super Mumford isomorphism (see Mumford measure), semi-infinite cohomology, operads in quantum field theory (see Swiss-cheese operad), Deligne's and Kontsevich's conjectures on Hochschild cohomology, cohomology of vertex operator algebras, and string topology (see cactus operad). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, an AMS Centennial Fellow,, a Simons Fellow, and a 2010 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow.