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| Born | (1971-08-10)10 August 1971 (age 54) Vilnius, then part of theLithuanian 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 amathematician known for work inalgebraic number theory andarithmetic geometry. In particular, he is known for his contributions to the study ofp-adic representations andp-adic cohomology.
Born inVilnius, Lithuania and raised from the age of five inMelbourne, Australia,[citation needed] he won a silver medal at theInternational Mathematical Olympiad in 1989[1] and received his B.Sc. fromMonash University in 1991.[2] He received his Ph.D. fromPrinceton University in 1998 under the direction ofNick Katz.[3] From 1998 to 2001 he was a Research Fellow at theUniversity of Sydney, after which he spent three years at theUniversity of Münster.[citation needed]
After six years at theUniversity of Chicago, Kisin took the post in 2009 of professor of mathematics atHarvard University.[2]
He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 2008.[4] He gave aninvited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".[5] In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[6] He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.[7]
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