Tomasz Stanislaw Mrowka

Tomasz Mrowka is the Singer Professor of Mathematics at MIT and has been the Department Head of the MIT Mathematics Department since June 2014. His research interests focus on problems in differential geometry - differential topology of three and four dimensional manifolds- gauge theory, and knot theory. His work combines analysis, geometry, and topology, specializing in the use of partial differential equations. In 2007, he received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry from the American Mathematical Society, jointly with Peter Kronheimer, "for their joint contributions to both three- and four- dimensional topology through the development of deep analytical techniques and applications." Their book, Monopoles and Three Manifolds, also garnered the 2011 Joseph Doob Prize of the American Mathematical Society.