Tony Pantev
Class of 1939 Professor of Mathematics
Pantev is a leading scholar of algebraic and differential geometry, Hodge theory, and mathematical physics. He is the director of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry, a large project that includes faculty from Penn, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, IHES France, Columbia, Brandeis, and the University of Miami.
At Penn, Pantev has served in many roles, including Undergraduate Chair and Graduate Group Chair, and as a member of the Personnel Committee of Mathematics.
He serves on the editorial boards of Advances in Mathematics, European Journal of Mathematics, and Research in Mathematical Sciences. Pantev has held visiting positions at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, England; the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas in Guanajuato, Mexico; Ohio State University; and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.
About the Donor
Class of 1939
The Class of 1939 Professorship was established in 1989 in conjunction with the Class of 1939’s 50th reunion, to support a distinguished professor in Penn Arts & Sciences.