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Robert Gompf

b. 1957

American mathematician

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Born 1957. Robert Gompf is an American mathematician and university teacher.

Robert Ernest Gompf (born 1957) is an American mathematician specializing in geometric topology.

Gompf received a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Robion Kirby (An invariant for Casson handles, disks and knot concordants). He is now a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

His research concerns the topology of 4-manifolds. In 1990, he demonstrated with Tomasz Mrowka that there is a simply connected irreducible 4-manifold that admits no complex structures. In 1995, he constructed new examples of simply connected compact symplectic 4-manifolds that are not homeomorphic or diffeomorphic to complex manifolds (Kähler manifolds).

He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994 in Zurich (Smooth four-manifolds and symplectic topology).

Writings With András I. Stipsicz: 4-manifolds and Kirby calculus, AMS 1999 A new construction of symplectic manifolds, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 142, 1995, p. 527–595 With Tomasz Mrowka Irreducible four manifolds need not be complex, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 138, 1993, p. 61–111 Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 148, 1998, p. 619–693

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Born
1957
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Education
University of California, Berkeley
Employers
University of Texas at Austin
Awards
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Also known as
Robert Ernest Gompf

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American mathematician

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· Wikipedia: Robert Gompf

· Wikidata: Q15435327

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