Curtis T. McMullen
Mathematician, Academic
1958 –
Who is Curtis T. McMullen?
Curtis Tracy McMullen is 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.
McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his Ph.D. 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 and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining Harvard in 1997.
He received the Salem Prize in 1991 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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- Born
- May 21, 1958
Berkeley - Also known as
- Curtis McMullen
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Mathematics
( - 1985/06) - Williams College
( - 1980)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Princeton University
- Harvard University
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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