Octav Cornea

Octav Cornea is a Professor in the Département de Mathématiques et Statistique at Université de Montréal. His research focuses on symplectic topology, algebraic topology, and Lagrangian submanifolds. He is an active editor for journals like Annales Mathématiques du Québec and Canadian Journal of Mathematics. He co-organizes the Symplectic Zoominar, a collaborative seminar involving institutions such as CRM-Montreal, Princeton, and Paris. Current roles include sabbatical leave (2025-2026). His work explores geometric structures like Fukaya categories and spectral metrics, with contributions to persistent homology and categorical frameworks.

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester (1993). Past affiliation: Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (2015-2016). His research integrates algebraic and geometric methods to address problems in symplectic dynamics and Lagrangian topology.