Robert Bryant (mathematician)

Robert Bryant
Bryant at Oberwolfach in 2012
Born	Robert Leamon Bryant (1953-08-30) August 30, 1953 (age 63) Kipling, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Duke University University of California at Berkeley Rice University Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Alma mater	North Carolina State University at Raleigh University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	Some Aspects of the Local and Global Theory of Pfaffian Systems (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Brown Gardner
Website fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/bryant

Robert Leamon Bryant (born August 30, 1953) is an American mathematician and Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He specializes in differential geometry. He served as the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) 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.

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 31st 2017.

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