Andrew Harold Kresch (born 1972) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

specializing in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

and a professor at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

. Kresch won a silver medal at the 1989 International Mathematical Olympiad. He studied at the

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and received his PhD from

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 1998 under the supervision of William Fulton on ''Chow Homology for Artin Stacks''. He was

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at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

and became a full professor at the University of Zurich in 2006.Four new professors
NZZ, March 13, 2006

Publications (Selection)

* with Buch, Anders Skovsted; Tamvakis, Harry (2017). ''A Giambelli formula for isotropic Grassmannians.'' Selecta Mathematica, 23(2):869-914. * with Buch, Anders Skovsted; Purbhoo, Kevin; Tamvakis, Harry (2016). ''The puzzle conjecture for the cohomology of two-step flag manifolds.'' Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 44(4):973-1007. * with Bumsig, Kim; Oh Yong-Geun. ''A compactification of the space of maps from curves.'' Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 366, no. 1, 2014, pp. 51–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23813129. Accessed 30 Aug. 2022. * ''Flattening stratification and the stack of partial stabilizations of prestable curves''. (2013) Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 45(1):93-102. * ''On the geometry of Deligne-Mumford stacks.'' In: Abramovich, D; Bertram, A; Katzarkov, L; Pandharipande, R; Thaddeus, M. Algebraic Geometry: Seattle 2005. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 259–271. * with Tamvakis, H (2003). ''Quantum cohomology of the Lagrangian Grassmannian.'' Journal of Algebraic Geometry, 12(4):777-810. * with Edidin, D; Hassett, B; Vistoli, A (2001). ''Brauer groups and quotient stacks.'' American Journal of Mathematics, 123(4):761-777. * ''Gromov-Witten invariants of a class of toric varieties'' (2000). Michigan Mathematical Journal, 48(1):369-391.

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Website at the University of Zurich
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kresch, Andrew Living people Academic staff of the University of Zurich International Mathematical Olympiad participants Yale University alumni University of Chicago alumni 1972 births