Tomasz Mrowka

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tomasz Mrowka is a Polish American mathematician. He has been a Simons Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2007. A graduate of MIT, he received the Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the direction of Clifford Taubes and Robion Kirby. He joined the MIT mathematics faculty as professor in 1996, following faculty appointments at Stanford and at Caltech (professor 1994-96).Mrowka's research is in differential geometry and gauge theory. A prior Sloan fellow and Young Presidential Investigator, he was selected for a Clay Mathematics Visiting Professorship in 1995. In 2007, he received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry from the AMS jointly with Peter Kronheimer, "for their joint contributions to both three- and four-dimensional topology through the development of deep analytical techniques and applications." He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.