Mark William Gross (born 30 November 1965)Anon (2017) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and

mirror symmetry In mathematics, reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, or mirror-image symmetry is symmetry with respect to a reflection. That is, a figure which does not change upon undergoing a reflection has reflectional symmetry. In 2D ther ...

Education

Gross studied from 1982 at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1984 and received in 1990 a PhD from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

for research supervised by

Robin Hartshorne __NOTOC__ Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; born March 15, 1938) is an American mathematician who is known for his work in algebraic geometry. Career Hartshorne was a Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University (under ...

with a thesis on the ''Surfaces in the Four-Dimensional Grassmannian''.

Career

From 1990 to 1993 he was an assistant professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and spent the academic year 1992–1993 on leave as a

postdoctoral researcher A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to pu ...

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 The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

in 2001–2013 a full professor. He was a visiting professor at the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

in the academic year 2002–2003. Since 2013, he has been a professor at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

and since 2016, a Fellow of

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

Research

Gross works on

complex geometry In mathematics, complex geometry is the study of geometric structures and constructions arising out of, or described by, the complex numbers. In particular, complex geometry is concerned with the study of spaces such as complex manifolds and c ...

, algebraic geometry, and mirror symmetry. Gross and

Bernd Siebert Bernd Siebert (born 5 March 1964 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) is a German mathematician who researches in algebraic geometry. Life Siebert studied mathematics starting 1984 at the University of Erlangen. In 1986, he changed to the University of B ...

jointly developed a program (known as the Gross–Siebert Program) for studying mirror symmetry within algebraic geometry.

Selected publications

*Topological Mirror Symmetry, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 144, 2001, pp. 75–137, *with D. Joyce, D. Huybrechts (eds.), Calabi–Yau Manifolds and related Geometries (Nordfjordeid 2001), Springer
2012 reprint
*with B. Siebert: From real affine geometry to complex geometry, Annals of Mathematics, vol. 174, 2011, pp. 1301–1428, *with Paul S. Aspinwall, Tom Bridgeland, Alastair Craw,

Michael R. Douglas Michael R. Douglas (born November 19, 1961) is an American theoretical physicist, best known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics. Biography Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a ...

Anton Kapustin Anton Nikolayevich Kapustin (born November 10, 1971, Moscow) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His interests lie in quantum field th ...

, Gregory W. Moore, Graeme Segal, Balázs Szendrői, and P. M. H. Wilson
Dirichlet branes and Mirror Symmetry

Clay Mathematics Monographs Clay Mathematics Monographs is a series of expositions in mathematics co-published by AMS and Clay Mathematics Institute The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathem ...

4, 2009
Tropical geometry and mirror symmetry
CBMS Regional conference series in Mathematics 114, AMS, 2011 *Mirror Symmetry for

P^2

and Tropical Geometry, Preprint 2009, *The Strominger–Yau–Zaslow conjecture: From torus fibrations to degenerations, AMS Symposium Algebraic Geometry, Seattle 2005, Preprint 2008, *Mirror Symmetry and the Strominger–Yau–Zaslow conjecture, Current Developments in Mathematics 2012,

Awards and honors

Gross was an Invited Speaker, jointly with Siebert, with talk ''Local mirror symmetry in the tropics'' at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul 2014. In 2016 Gross and Siebert jointly received the

Clay Research Award __NOTOC__ The Clay Research Award is an annual award given by the Oxford-based Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research. The following mathematicians have received the award: {, class=" ...

. Gross was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

in 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

References

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