Robert Bryant (mathematician)


Robert Leamon Bryant is an American mathematician and Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He specializes in differential geometry.

Career

Bryant served as the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 2007 to 2013. He is known for his work in exterior differential systems, special holonomy, and Finsler geometry. Bryant surfaces, surfaces of unit constant mean curvature in hyperbolic space, are named after him. The Bryant soliton is also named after him.
Bryant is on the board of directors of EDGE, a transition program for women entering graduate studies in the mathematical sciences. He is also a board member of Spectra, an association for LGBT mathematicians.
In 2013 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as the president of the American Mathematical Society from February 1, 2015 until January 31, 2017.

Selected publications

Bryant and David Morrison are the editors of vol. 4 of the Selected Works of Phillip Griffiths.