Curriculum Vitae
Benedict H. Gross Birthdate: June 22, 1950 South Orange, New Jersey Education: B.A. Harvard University, 1971 M.Sc. Oxford University, 1974 Ph.D. Harvard University, 1978 Appointments: Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1978-82 Maitre de Conferences, Universite de Paris VII, 1980 Associate Professor, Brown University, 1982-85 Professor, Harvard University, 1985-1998 George Vasmer Leverett Professor, Harvard University, 1998-2017 Dean for Undergraduate Education, Harvard University, 2002-03 Dean of Harvard College, 2003-07 Harvard College Professor, 2011 - 2016 Service: AMS Committee on Postdoctoral Fellowships, 1978-82 AMS Committee on Summer Research Conferences, 1981-84 Selection Committee for Sloan Doctoral Fellowships, 1984-1988 Editor: Compositio Mathematica, 1980-1991 Editor: Annales de l'Institute Fourier, 1982-1988 Editor: Annals of Mathematics, 1985-1990 Editor: Journal of the AMS, 1994-2000 Editor: Mathematical Research Letters, 2009-2013 Editor: Arabian Journal of Mathematics, 2008- Scientific Advisory Committee, MSRI, 1999-2003 Selection Committee for Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2003-08 Advisory Board, Berlin Mathematical School, 2009-2017 Advisory Board, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, 2011- Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Study, 2012-2017 Executive committee, International Mathematical Union, 2015-2019 Honors: PBK, 1971 Sheldon Traveling Scholarship, 1971-72 Marshall Scholarship, 1972-74 Sloan Fellowship, 1980-83 MacArthur Fellowship, 1986-1991 Cole Prize in Number Theory, AMS, 1987 Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 Member of National Academy of Sciences, 2004 Member of American Philosophical Society, 2017 Selected publications: Arithmetic on elliptic curves with complex multiplication, Springer Lecture Notes 776 (1980). On the periods of abelian integrals and a formula of Chowla and Selberg, Inventiones math. 48 (1978). (with N. Koblitz) Gauss sums and the p-adic Gamma function, Annals of Math. 109 (1979). (with D. Zagier) Singular moduli, J. Crelle 355 (1985). (with D. Zagier) Heegner points and derivatives of L-series. Inventiones math 84(1986). (with D. Prasad) The restriction of a representation of SO(n) to SO(n-1), Canadian math. J. 44 (1992). (with M. Hopkins) Equivariant vector bundles on the Lubin-Tate moduli space, Cantemporary math. AMS 158 (1994). (with W. Gan and D. Prasad) Sur les conjectures de Gross et Prasad, Asterisque 346 (2012). (with M. Bhargava) The average size of the 2-Selmer group of the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves with a Weierstrass point, TIFR Studies 22 (2013). Statement: My research is in number theory and representation theory. I am also interested in teaching mathematics at all levels, and in communicating the great ideas in mathematics to the general public.