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Mark A. Stern

Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320
116 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesday: 10-11,  Friday : 1-2  

Research Interests


Currently I am interested in various aspects of the structure of yang mills moduli spaces and the structure of singularities of Yang-Mills fields. I am also studying various aspects of the interaction of geometry and topology and the spectrum of the Laplace beltrami operator on forms.  This includes spectral estimates motivated by questions in number theory and betti number estimates motivated by questions in geometric topology.

Selected Grants


The Geometry and Analysis of Yang-Mills Instantons.

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Simons Foundation · 2023 - 2028

Instanton Decay and Nonlinear Harmonic Forms

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Simons Foundation · 2015 - 2022

Chern-Simons Invariance Instantons and Mass

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2014

Positive Mass, Singularities, and Supersymmetry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2010

Bound States, Singularities, and Supersymmetry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2006

Non-Fredholm Index Theory, Matrix, Models, and Hodge Theory

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1998 - 2003

Hodge Structures and L2 Cohomology

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1995 - 1999

Hodge Structures and L2 Cohomology

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1995 - 1999

Presidential Young Investigator Award: Mathematical Sciences

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1989 - 1994

Some New Spectral Invariants and Their Relationship to Automorphic Forms and Geodesics

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1986 - 1988

External Relationships


  • Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)

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