LAURA G. DE MARCO Department of Mathematics Northwestern University 2033 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-2730
[email protected] EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. in Mathematics, June 2002 Thesis advisor: Curtis T. McMullen University of California, Berkeley, CA M.A. in Mathematics, 1998 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, 1996 EMPLOYMENT Henry S. Noyes Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University September 2019 { present Professor, Northwestern University, September 2014 { present Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2012 { August 2014 Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2009 { August 2012 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2007 { August 2009 Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, September 2005 { August 2007 L. E. Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, September 2002 { August 2005 PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS Dynamical systems, Complex analysis, Arithmetic geometry. I am mainly focused on the 1 1 dynamics of rational maps f : P (C) ! P (C) and their moduli spaces, studied with a combination of complex-analytic and algebraic techniques. GRANTS and AWARDS PI, NSF Research Grant, 2019{2022 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 2018 Satter Prize, American Mathematical Society, 2017 PI, NSF Research Grant, 2016{2019 Simons Foundation Fellowship, 2015{2016; Visiting Professor, University of Michigan (Fall 2015), Visiting Professor, Stony Brook University (Spring 2016) PI, NSF