Dr. Dmitri Korotkin

Concordia University Research Chair in Mathematics and Statistics (Tier 2)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

korotkin@mathstat.concordia.ca

Dr. Dmitri Korotkin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in Soviet-era Russia. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematical Physics from St. Petersburg State University, and then received his Ph.D. and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) in the same discipline from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg. He became a Concordia faculty member in 2000.

Currently, Dr. Korotkin's research involves studying classical and quantum gravity, alebro-geometric methods in integrable systems and the 'Riemann-Hilbert problem,' and the spectral properties of Riemann surfaces.

Dr. Korotkin has put his years of research to good use in his field, resulting in numerous innovative findings and accolades, including:

• Constructing a new class of exact solutions of Einstein's equations in terms of Riemann theta-functions; later these solutions were used for devising a description of a relativistically rotating disc of dust.
• Quantizing Einstein-Rosen waves with two polarizations using the methods of quantum groups. This research was conducted with Dr. Henning Samtleben.
• Computing determinants of the Laplace operator on Riemann surfaces with conical singularities in collaboration with Dr. Alexey Kokotov.
• Receiving a Research Fellowship at the Albert-Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany in 1997, as well as research fellowships at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany in 2003 and 2007.
• Receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1993 in Hamburg.
• Senior Concordia University Research Fellow for one year.