Gaven Martin

Gaven John Martin (born 8 October 1958) is a New Zealand mathematician. He is a distinguished professor of Mathematics at Massey University, the head of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, the former president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society (from 2005 to 2007), and former editor-in-chief of the New Zealand Journal of Mathematics. He is a former vice-president of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His research concerns quasiconformal mappings, regularity theory for partial differential equations, and connections between the theory of discrete groups and low-dimensional topology. and earning the Sumner Byron Myers Prize for the best mathematics dissertation in his year He currently is the Director of the NZ Mathematics Research Institute https://www.nzmri.org and a long serving board member of the Rotary Science Trust.

Honours and awards Martin became a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997. He was an invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. He was made a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2016. He gave the Taft Memorial Lectures in 2010 and the Maclaurin Lectures of the American Mathematical Society in 2016. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society, won their Research Prize (1994) and the inaugural Kalman Prize (2016). Recent awards include Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships and the Humbolt Research Prize (2022). In 2024, Martin was awarded the Jones Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand for "his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including geometry, analysis, topology, and group theory".

In the 2026 New Year Honours, Martin was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to mathematics and education.

Mathematics education In 2021 Martin chaired the Royal Society of New Zealand's Expert Advice Panel for the Ministry of Education on the NZ Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum. Their report found that investment and changes were needed at virtually all levels of the education system. He was subsequently appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Group

Selected publications

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