Curriculum Vitæ

David R. Morrison

   Department of Mathematics             +1-919-660-2862 (office)
   Duke University                       +1-919-489-3047 (home)
   Durham, NC 27708-0320 USA             drm@math.duke.edu (email)

Personal

   Born 29 July 1955, Oakland, California.  
   U.S. citizen.

Education

   A.B.  summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1976.
   A.M.  (mathematics), Harvard University, 1977.
   Ph.D. (mathematics), Harvard University, 1980.

Profesional Experience / Employment History

   Instructor in Mathematics, Princeton University, 1980-82
   Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, 1982-86
      Kyoto University Guest Scholar, 1984-85
   Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1986-92
      Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University, Spring 1987
   Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1992-97
      Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1992-93 and Fall 1993
      Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Spring 1995
      Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1996-97
   James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University, 1997-present
      Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Spring 2000

Awards, Honors, and Prizes

   Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Scholarship, 1973-76
   Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, 1976
   National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1977-80
   National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-84
   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 1984-85
   American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, 1992-94

Publications (listed separately)

   Books
   Mathematics Articles
   Physics Articles

Editorial Boards

   Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1997-present
   New York Journal of Mathematics, 1997-present

Ph.D. Theses Directed

   Antonella Grassi, Minimal Models of Elliptic Threefolds, May 1990.
   Dong-Kwan Shin, Pluricanonical Maps of Threefolds of General Type, May 1990.
   Qi Zhang, Adjunction for Vector Bundles, Characterizations of Uniruled
      Varieties, and Small Contraction Mappings, September 1990.
   Yun-Gang Ye, Relative Brill-Noether Theory and an Infinitesimal Version
      of the Harris-Mumford Problem, May 1991. 
   Christopher Scott Peterson, Applications of Liaison Theory to Schemes
      Supported on Lines, Growth of the Deficiency Module, and Low Rank
      Vector Bundles, May 1994 (co-director, with Juan Migliore).
   Yiannis Vlassopoulos, Quantum Cohomology and the Loop Space, December 1998.
   Richard Paul Horja, Hypergeometric Functions and Mirror Symmetry in Toric 
      Varieties, December 1999.