Robert MacPherson
Hermann Weyl Professor
School of Mathematics

Robert MacPherson’s work has introduced radically new approaches to the topology of singular spaces and promoted investigations across a great spectrum of mathematics. He works in several fields of geometry-topology, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and singularity theory, and is especially interested in aspects of geometry that interact with other areas of mathematics such as the geometry of spaces of lattices which interacts with modular forms, and the geometry of toric varieties which interacts with combinatorics.

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1970; J. D. Tamarkin Instructor, Brown University, 1970-72, Assistant Professor, 1972-74, Associate Professor, 1974-77, Professor, 1977-87, Florence Pierce Grant University Professor, 1985-87; Institute for Advanced Study, Member, 1985-86, Professor, 1994-2007, Hermann Weyl Professor 2007-; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987-94; Colloquium Lecturer, American Mathematical Society annual meeting, 1991; Progress in Mathematics Lecturer, American Mathematical Society Mathfest, 1995; Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, 1994-; National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics, 1992; Leroy P. Steele Prize, American Mathematical Society, 2002.