Curtis T. McMullen
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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.
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Born | Curtis Tracy McMullen (1958-05-21) May 21, 1958 (age 65) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Williams College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Known for | Complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory |
Awards | Sloan Fellowship (1988) Salem Prize (1991) Fields Medal (1998) Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) Humboldt Prize (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Harvard MIT Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Berkeley |
Thesis | Families of Rational Maps and Iterative Root-Finding Algorithms (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sullivan |
Doctoral students | Jeffrey Brock Laura DeMarco Jeremy Kahn Maryam Mirzakhani |
Website | math |
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