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Larry Guth is the Claude E. Shannon Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, appointed in July 2019. He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2021, highlighting his contributions to undergraduate education. Guth earned his PhD from MIT in 2005 under the supervision of Tom Mrowka and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford. He was a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto before joining the faculty at the Courant Institute in 2011 and then MIT in 2012 as a professor. His research focuses on metric geometry, harmonic analysis, and extremal combinatorics, with significant work on the Kakeya problem and connections to geometric inequalities and topology. Guth has received numerous accolades including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2010, the Salem Prize for outstanding contributions to analysis in 2014, and was named a Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation. He has also been recognized with the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, the Bôcher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society, and elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Mathematical Society. He is known for his book, 'Polynomial Methods in Combinatorics,' and has been honored with the newly renamed Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics. In 2010, he presented an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined the MIT mathematics faculty as a professor after a junior faculty appointment at the University of Toronto and a position at the Courant Institute.