Mark Gross (mathematician)
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Fellow of the Royal Society (2017)
Mark Gross | |
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.jpg) Gross in 2017 | |
| Born | November 30, 1965 Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Clay Research Award (2016)[1] Fellow of the Royal Society (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Surfaces in the Four-Dimensional Grassmannian (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Hartshorne[2] |
| Website | dpmms www |
Mark William Gross FRS[1] (born 30 November 1965)[3] is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mirror symmetry.[4][5][6]
Mark William Gross was born on 30 November 1965 in Ithaca, New York, to Leonard Gross and Grazyna Gross.[3] From 1982, he studied at Cornell University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1984.[3] He gained a PhD in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley,[3] for research supervised by Robin Hartshorne[1][2] with a thesis on the surfaces in the four-dimensional Grassmannian.[2]
Career
From 1990 to 1993 he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and spent the academic year 1992–1993 on leave as a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley. He was at Cornell University in 1993–1997 an assistant professor and in 1997–2001 an associate professor and then at University of California, San Diego in 2001–2013 a full professor. He was a visiting professor at the University of Warwick in the academic year 2002–2003.[citation needed] Since 2013, he has been a professor at the University of Cambridge[7] and since 2016, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.[8]
