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Tom Mrowka is a 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.
A prior Sloan fellow and Young Presidential Investigator, in 1994 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich. 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 was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, and in 2011 he received the Doob Prize with Peter B. Kronheimer for their book Monopoles and Three-Manifolds (Cambridge University Press, 2007). In 2018 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Rio de Janeiro, together with Peter Kronheimer. In 2023 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (with Peter Kronheimer).
He became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2007, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
