Mark Haiman

Mark David Haiman is a mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who proved the Macdonald positivity conjecture for Macdonald polynomials. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of Gian-Carlo Rota.^[1] Previous to his appointment at Berkeley, he held positions at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2]

Mark David Haiman
Title	Professor of Mathematics
Awards	E. H. Moore Research Article Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	The Theory of Linear Lattices (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Gian-Carlo Rota
Academic work
Institutions	University of California, San Diego 1991-2001 University of California, Berkeley 2001-present
Doctoral students	Sara Billey
Main interests	Algebraic combinatorics
Website	math.berkeley.edu/~mhaiman/

In 2004, he received the inaugural AMS Moore Prize.^[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Selected publications

• Haiman, Mark (2001), "Hilbert schemes, polygraphs, and the Macdonald positivity conjecture", Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 14 (4): 941–1006, arXiv:math.AG/0010246, Bibcode:2000math.....10246H, doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00373-3, S2CID 9253880