Vladimir Marković is a Professor of Mathematics at

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. He was previously the John D. MacArthur Professor at the

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(2013–2020) and

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at the

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(2013–2014).

Education

Marković was educated at the

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where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995 and a PhD in 1998.

Career and research

Previously, Marković has held positions at the

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and the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. Marković is editor of ''

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''. Marković's research interests are in low-dimensional

geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...

topology Topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a Mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformat ...

and dynamics and functional and

geometric analysis Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline where tools from differential equations, especially elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), are used to establish new results in differential geometry and differential topology. The use of ...

Awards and honours

Marković was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.The Royal Society Vladimir Markovic Biography
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in 2004. In Fall of 2015 Marković worked as an

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In 2016 he received a Simons Investigator Award.

References

External links

Caltech: Markovic Elected to Great Britain's Royal Society
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