Mark Kisin Named Professor of Mathematics at Harvard

Cambridge, Mass. May 7, 2009 - Mark Kisin, one of the world's most promising young number theorists, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009. "Professor Kisin's work is influential and wide-ranging," says Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science in FAS. "He is an excellent expositor of mathematics and an energetic and talented teacher, highly committed to both undergraduate and graduate education. All our mathematics students will benefit from his instruction and guidance." Kisin has worked in several areas of algebraic number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry. His most celebrated contributions have come in p-adic representations of p-adic Galois groups and p-adic cohomology. One of the leading researchers in this field, he has introduced to p-adic representations new and powerful ideas from algebraic geometry.