Michael T. Anderson

Michael T. Anderson (born November 18, 1950, in Boulder, Colorado)^[1] is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.^[2] His research concerns differential geometry including Ricci curvature and minimal surfaces.

After doing his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara,^[1] Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 under the supervision of H. Blaine Lawson.^[3]

In 2012, Anderson became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Major publications

• Anderson, Michael T.; Schoen, Richard. Positive harmonic functions on complete manifolds of negative curvature. Ann. of Math. (2) 121 (1985), no. 3, 429–461.
• Anderson, Michael T. Ricci curvature bounds and Einstein metrics on compact manifolds. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1989), no. 3, 455–490.
• Anderson, Michael T. Convergence and rigidity of manifolds under Ricci curvature bounds. Invent. Math. 102 (1990), no. 2, 429–445.