Viatcheslav Mikhailovich Kharlamov (Вячеслав Михайлович Харламов, born 28 January 1950, Leningrad) is a Russian-French mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and differential topology.
Kharlamov studied from 1967 to 1972 at the Leningrad State University, where he received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1975 under Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, with the thesis Inequalities and congruences for Euler characteristics of certain real algebraic varieties.
He has been a professor at the University of Strasbourg since 1991, where he is a permanent member of the team at the Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, UMRI 7501, CNRS.
[2] From 1972 he succeeded in solving a part of Hilbert's sixteenth problem concerning the number of components and the topology of non-singular fourth-order algebraic surfaces in three dimensions.
His doctoral students include Jean-Yves Welschinger and Thomas Fiedler.