Simon K. DONALDSON

Address:

Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
24 - 29 St. Giles
Oxford OX1 3LB

Phone: (44) 1 865-27 35 40
Fax: 1 865-27 35 83
E-Mail: donaldson@vax.oxford.ac.uk

Born:

20 August 1957, Cambridge, England

Education:

1979 BA Cambridge University
1984 D. Phil. Oxford University

Positions:

1983 - 1985 Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
1983 - 1984 Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1985 - Wallis Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University

Selected Awards, Honours and Distinctions

1986 Fields Medal, International Congress of Mathematics
1986 Elected to Fellowship of Royal Society (London)
1992 Royal Medal of Royal Society
1994 Crafoord Prize of Swedish Academy of Science (with S.T. Yau)

Research Interests:

Differential geometry and differential topology: particularly gauge theory, complex and symplectic geometry.

Selected Publications:

1. An application of gauge theory to four-dimensional topology
   J. Differential Geometry 18, 279-315 (1983)

2. Anti-self-dual Yamng-Mills connections on complex algebraic surfaces and stable vector bundles
   Proc. London Math. Soc. 3 1-26 (1985)

3. Connections, cohomology and the intersection forms of four-manifolds
   Jour. Differential Geometry 24 275-341 (1986)

4. Infinite determinants, stable bundles and curvature
   Duke Math. Jour. 54 231-247 (1987)

5. The geometry of four-manifolds (with P. B. Kronheimer)
   Oxford University Press (1990)