Sergey Bobkov (Russian: Cергей Германович Бобков; born March 15, 1961) is a mathematician. Currently Bobkov is a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. SGBobkov

He was born in Vorkuta ( Komi Republic, Russia) and graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

. In 1988 he earned PhD in Mathematics and Physics (under direction of Vladimir N. Sudakov,

Steklov Institute of Mathematics Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute (russian: Математический институт имени В.А.Стеклова) is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part ...

) and in 1997 earned his Doctor of Science. During 1998–2000 Bobkov held positions at Syktyvkar State University, Russia. From 1995 to 1996 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany. He spent the summers of 2001 and 2002 as an EPSRC Fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Bobkov was awarded a Simons Fellowship (2012) and Humboldt Research Award (2014). Bobkov is known for research in mathematics on the border of probability theory, analysis, convex geometry and

information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...

. He has achieved important results about isoperimetric problems, concentration of measure and other high-dimensional phenomena. Bobkov's inequality is named after him.

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