Tomasz Mrowka

Tomasz Mrowka
Mrowka at Aarhus University, 2011
Born (1961-09-08) September 8, 1961 (age 63)
Alma mater
Known forKronheimer–Mrowka basic class
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMIT
Thesis A local Mayer-Vietoris principle for Yang-Mills moduli spaces  (1988)
Doctoral advisorClifford Taubes
Robion Kirby
Doctoral studentsLarry Guth
Lenhard Ng
Sherry Gong

Tomasz Mrowka (born September 8, 1961) is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and gauge theory. He is the Singer Professor of Mathematics and former head of the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mrowka is the son of Polish mathematician Stanisław Mrówka [pl],[1] and is married to MIT mathematics professor Gigliola Staffilani.[2]

  1. ^ W. Piotrowski, Stanisław G. Mrówka (1933–2010), Wiadom. Mat. 51 (2015), 347–348 [1].
  2. ^ Baker, Billy (April 28, 2008), "A life of unexpected twists takes her from farm to math department", Boston Globe. Archived by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Women in Science initiative.