Jeff Cheeger

Jeff Cheeger
Jeff Cheeger (left) with H. Blaine Lawson (right) in 2007
Born (1943-12-01) December 1, 1943 (age 80)
Brooklyn, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known forRiemannian geometry
Metric Geometry
Cheeger constant
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1984)
NAS member (1997)
Veblen Prize (2001)
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2019)
Shaw Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsNew York University
Stony Brook University
University of Michigan
Doctoral advisorSalomon Bochner
James Harris Simons
Doctoral studentsChristina Sormani
Xiaochun Rong
Xianzhe Dai

Jeff Cheeger (born December 1, 1943) is an American mathematician and Silver Professor[1] at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. His main interest is differential geometry and its connections with topology and analysis.