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Curtis T. McMullen

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Curtis T. McMullen
McMullen in 1994
Born
Curtis Tracy McMullen

(1958-05-21) May 21, 1958 (age 66)
Alma materWilliams College (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forComplex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory
AwardsSloan Fellowship (1988)
Salem Prize (1991)
Fields Medal (1998)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Humboldt Prize (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisFamilies of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms (1985)
Doctoral advisorDennis Sullivan
Doctoral studentsJeffrey Brock
Laura DeMarco
Jeremy Kahn
Maryam Mirzakhani
Giulio Tiozzo
Websitemath.harvard.edu/~ctm/

Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.

Biography

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McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan. He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University (1987–1990) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), before joining Harvard in 1997. McMullen was chair of the Harvard Mathematics Department from 2017 to 2020. His doctoral student Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the Fields Medal.

Honors and awards

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McMullen received the Salem Prize in 1991 and won the Fields Medal in 1998[1][2] at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berlin.[3] At the 1990 ICM in Kyoto he was an Invited Speaker.[4] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, and received the Humboldt Research Award in 2011.

Major publications

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Books

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References

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  1. ^ Borcherds, Gowers, Kontsevich, and McMullen Receive Fields Medals
  2. ^ Lepowsky, James; Lindenstrauss, Joram; Manin, Yuri I.; Milnor, John (January 1999). "The Mathematical Work of the 1998 Fields Medalists" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 46 (1): 17–26.
  3. ^ McMullen, Curtis T. (1998). "Rigidity and inflexibility in conformal dynamics". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 841–855.
  4. ^ McMullen, Curtis T. (1991). "Rational maps and Kleinian groups". In Satake, Ichiro (ed.). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21-29, 1990, Kyoto, Japan. Tokyo: Springer. pp. 889–900.
  5. ^ a b Lyubich, Mikhail (1999). "Review of Complex dynamics and renormalization and Renormalization and 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 36 (1): 103–107. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-99-00770-3.
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