Michael J. Hopkins: advisors and students

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Michael J. Hopkins

American mathematicianborn 1958

Supervised 17 doctoral students (18 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Mark Mahowald as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students18

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Natalia María Pacheco-Tallaj “Twisted String Bordism with Applications to Anomaly Cancellation”
2026 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Cameron Krulewski “Invertible Functorial Field Theory for Symmetry Breaking and Interactions in Quantum Field Theory”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Araminta Amabel Wilson “Genera via Deformation Theory and Supersymmetric Mechanics”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Inna Zakharevich “Scissors congruence and K-theory”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Markéta Havlíčková “Boundaries of K-types in discrete series”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Anthony Hill “Computational methods for higher real K-theory with applications to tmf”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John R. Hopkinson “Universal polynomials in lambda rings and the K-theory of the infinite loop space tmf”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher L Douglas “Twisted stable homotopy theory”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
André Gil Henriques “Orbispaces”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nora Ganter “Orbifold genera, product formulas and power operations”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tilman Bauer “[rho]-compact groups as framed manifolds”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Kálmán Biss “The homotopy type of the matroid Grassmannian”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sharon Joy Hollander “A homotopy theory for stacks”
2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Dugger “A Postnikov tower for algebraic K-theory”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tibor Beke “Homotopy theory and topoi”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Julie Rehmeyer “Homotopy colimits”
1997 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Charles W. Rezk “Spaces of algebra structures and cohomology of operads”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dan Arnon “Generalized Dickson invariants”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Mark Mahowald

Students on Wikidata23

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John H. Palmieri
born 1964
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Charles Rezk
born 1969
stated by Wikidata
Daniel Biss
born 1977
stated by Wikidata
Jacob Lurie
born 1977
stated by Wikidata
Michael A. Hill
born 1980
stated by Wikidata
Reid W. Barton
born 1983
stated by Wikidata
André Henriques
stated by Wikidata
Christopher Lee Douglas
stated by Wikidata
Dan Arnon
stated by Wikidata
Daniel Keith Dugger
stated by Wikidata
David K. Eisen
stated by Wikidata
Gustavo Granja
stated by Wikidata
Inna Zakharevich
stated by Wikidata
John Hopkinson
stated by Wikidata
John Nathan Kirkpatrick Francis
stated by Wikidata
Krishanu Roy Sankar
stated by Wikidata
Nora Ganter
stated by Wikidata
Samik Basu
stated by Wikidata
Samuel Baruch Isaacson
stated by Wikidata
Sharon Joy Hollander
stated by Wikidata
Tibor Beke
stated by Wikidata
Tilman Bauer
stated by Wikidata
XiaoLin Danny Shi

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataMark Mahowald
2 steps up
stated by WikidataBernard Russell Gelbaum
3 steps up
stated by WikidataSalomon Bochner
4 steps up
stated by WikidataErhard Schmidt

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 79 people: 17 cited by thesis records, 62 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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Northwestern University
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Westside High School
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New College
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Princeton University
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Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Chicago
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Lehigh University
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At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: mathematic
awards: Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, 2001, Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics, 2012, Senior Berwick Prize, 2014, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, 2022, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2021, Rhodes Scholarship, 1979
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 2010, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2002, American Mathematical Society, from 2020, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, from 2002
Wikipedia: in 7 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaMichael J. Hopkins
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1927987
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0003-0147-6476
stated by WikidataVIAF16271887
stated by WikidataGND1237728711
stated by WikidataISNI0000000030410845

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle Scholarcsg4lNEAAAAJ
stated by WikidataScopus7202147327

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project5672

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1927987,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Michael J. Hopkins: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1927987},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Michael J. Hopkins: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1927987