The St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Санкт-Петербургское отделение Математического института им. В. А. Стеклова РАН, abbreviated ПОМИ (PDMI) for "Петербургское отделение Математического института", Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute; PDMI) is a mathematical research institute in St. Petersburg, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Until 1992 it was known as Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ЛОМИ, LOMI).
The name of the institution is a historical tradition and since 1995 it has no subordination to the Steklov Institute of Mathematics.
The institute was established in 1940 as a department of the Steklov Institute and is named after Vladimir Andreevich Steklov, a Soviet/Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
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Directors
V. A. Tartakovskii (1940–1941)
Andrey Markov, Jr. (1942–1953)
Nikolai Erugin (1953–1957)
Georgii Petrashen' (1957–1976)
Ludvig Faddeev (1976–2000)
Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov (2000–2006)
Sergei Kislyakov (2007–2021)
Maxim Vsemirnov (2021–present)
Notable researchers
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
Yuri Burago
Nikolai Durov
Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev
Vera Faddeeva
Fedor Fomin
Leonid Kantorovich
Vladimir Korepin
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Yuri Linnik
Yuri Matiyasevich
Grigori Perelman worked at this institution when he proved the Poincaré conjecture.
Fedor Petrov
Nicolai Reshetikhin
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin
Samson Shatashvili
Andrei Suslin
Leon Takhtajan
Anatoly Vershik
Alexander Volberg
Oleg Viro
Victor Zalgaller