Mark Goresky

Mark Goresky (born December 27, 1950 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry , representation theory and computer science .

Life

Goresky studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Bachelor's degree in 1971) and at Brown University , where he received his doctorate from Robert MacPherson in 1976 ( Geometric Cohomology and Homology of Stratified Objects ). In 1975 he was at IHES near Paris . He was then Moore Instructor at MIT from 1976 to 1978 , assistant professor at the University of British Columbia from 1978 to 1981 and from 1981 at Northeastern University , where he became a professor of both mathematics and computer science. Since 1995 he has been at Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study .

He is known for his development of the intersection homology (Intersection homology) with his teacher Robert MacPherson, a cohomology and homology theory for singular spaces . He also dealt with cryptography (including random number generators with shift registers ).

In 1980 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1984 he received the Coxeter James Prize and in 1986 the Jeffery Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada . In 2002 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize with MacPherson and in 2011 the Ferran-Sunyer-i-Balaguer Prize with Jayce Getz . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Goresky, MacPherson: Stratified Morse Theory. Springer Results of Mathematics 1988
with Jayce Getz: Hilbert Modular Forms with Coefficients in Intersection Homology and Quadratic Base Change , Birkhäuser 2012