Professor Sergey Novikov is a well known Russian mathematician specialized in geometry, topology and mathematical physics. He is presently a professor at the University of Maryland, USA in the Department of Mathematics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology.

Professor Novikov received his mathematical education in Moscow University (1955-1960), and awarded the degree of Ph.D. and Doctor of Science at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 1964 and 1965 respectively. He has worked at Moscow University since 1964 and he has been head of the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology since 1983.

He was elected a full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981); Honorary Member of the London Math. Society (1987); Honorary Member of the Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences (1988); Foreign Member of the "Academia de Lincei", Italy (1991); Member of Academia Europea (1992); Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of US (1994); and Member of Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican (1996). Professor Novikov served as President of the Moscow Mathematical Society from 1985-1996, and he was also a Vice-President of the International Association in Mathematical Physics from 1986-1990.

Professor Novikov has received Lenin Prize (1967); Fields Medal of the International Mathematical Union (1970); and Lobachevskii International Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981).