Biography:Patrick Brosnan

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Patrick Brosnan
Born1968
Philadelphia
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
AwardsCoxeter–James Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland
University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisorSpencer Bloch

Patrick Brosnan is an United States mathematician, known for his work on motives, Hodge theory, and algebraic groups. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1998 under the direction of Spencer Bloch. Brosnan is the 2009 recipient of the Coxeter-James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society.[1]

In 2003, Brosnan (in joint work with Prakash Belkale) disproved the Spanning Tree Conjecture of Kontsevich.[2]

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  1. Press release of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
  2. Review of Matroids, motives, and a conjecture of Kontsevich MR1950482

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