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Clifford Taubes
Taubes in 2010.
Born
(1954-02-21) February 21, 1954 (age 70)
New York City, New York
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Harvard University
Known for
Taubes's Gromov invariant Bott–Taubes polytope
Awards
Shaw Prize (2009) Clay Research Award (2008) NAS Award in Mathematics (2008) Veblen Prize (1991)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematical physics
Institutions
Harvard University
Thesis
The Structure of Static Euclidean Gauge Fields (1980)
Doctoral advisor
Arthur Jaffe
Doctoral students
Michael Hutchings Tomasz Mrowka
Clifford Henry Taubes (born February 21, 1954)[1] is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology. His brother is the journalist Gary Taubes.
^"1991 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry Awarded in San Francisco" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 38 (3): 182. March 1991.
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hypersurfaces. In the 1980s fundamental contributions by Karen Uhlenbeck, CliffordTaubes, Shing-Tung Yau, Richard Schoen, and Richard Hamilton launched a particularly...
University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the direction of CliffordTaubes and Robion Kirby. He joined the MIT mathematics faculty as professor...
nutrition. His brother, Clifford Henry Taubes, is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Taubes' books have all dealt with...
In 2009, he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematics (jointly with CliffordTaubes) for their contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions. In 2014...
undertook Ph.D. work on monopoles on 3-manifolds, under the supervision of CliffordTaubes; but he did not complete it when interrupted by his obligatory alternative...
being the complex projective plane) by John Morgan, Zoltán Szabó, and CliffordTaubes, also using the Seiberg–Witten invariants. There is at least one generalization...
isomorphic (by work of CliffordTaubes) to Seiberg–Witten Floer cohomology and consequently (by work announced by Kutluhan, Lee & Taubes 2020 and Colin, Ghiggini...
work of Thurston and Canary, of the Ahlfors Measure Conjecture" 2008 CliffordTaubes Claire Voisin "For his proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension...
3-dimensional manifolds by CliffordTaubes. The proof uses a variant of Seiberg–Witten Floer homology and pursues a strategy analogous to Taubes' proof that the...
three spheres whose reduction mod(2) is the invariant of Rohlin. 1991 CliffordTaubes for: Self-dual Yang-Mills connections on non-self-dual 4-manifolds...
combinatorial object by Raoul Bott and CliffordTaubes and, for this reason, it is also sometimes called the Bott–Taubes polytope. It was later constructed...
the physics and pure mathematics departments, under Arthur Jaffe and CliffordTaubes respectively. Armed with his PhD in 1988, his first job was as a 1-year...
(born 1954) Julia Yeomans (born 1954) Barton Zwiebach (born 1954) CliffordTaubes (born 1954) Antti Kupiainen (born 1954) F. J. Duarte (born 1954) Reinhard...
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Arthur Jaffe's 30 doctoral students include Joel Feldman, Ezra Getzler, CliffordTaubes, Eugene Wayne, John Imbrie, Christopher King, and Jonathan Weissman...
7 October 2022. "$1 Million Shaw Prize Goes to Simon Donaldson and CliffordTaubes". Mathematical Association of America. 25 June 2009. Archived from...