Mark Kisin | |
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 Kisin in 2007 | |
| Born | 10 August 1971 Vilnius, then part of the Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Local constancy in p-adic families of Galois representations (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas M. Katz |
| Doctoral students | Yunqing Tang |
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Mark Kisin is a mathematician known for work in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. In particular, he is known for his contributions to the study of p-adic representations and p-adic cohomology.
Born in Vilnius, Lithuania and raised from the age of five in Melbourne, Australia,[ citation needed ] he won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1989 [1] and received his B.Sc. from Monash University in 1991. [2] He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998 under the direction of Nick Katz. [3] From 1998 to 2001 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, after which he spent three years at the University of Münster.[ citation needed ]
After six years at the University of Chicago, Kisin took the post in 2009 of professor of mathematics at Harvard University. [2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008. [4] He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory". [5] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [6] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. [7]
