Mark Haiman

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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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.{{MathGenealogy|id=18003}} Previous to his appointment at Berkeley, he held positions at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.https://math.berkeley.edu/~mhaiman/ftp/cv/cv.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

In 2004, he received the inaugural AMS Moore Prize.[https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/pabrowse?purl=moore-prize E. H. Moore Research Article Prize] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-01-19.