Adam Marcus (mathematician)

Adam W. Marcus
Born1979 (age 46–47)
United States
Alma mater
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Washington University in St. Louis
Awards
  • König Prize (2008)
  • Pólya Prize (2014)
  • Michael and Sheila Held Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
  • EPFL
  • Princeton University
  • Yale University
Doctoral advisor
Prasad Tetali

Adam Wade Marcus (born 1979) is an American mathematician. He held the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis in the Institute of Mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne until February 2023. The team of Marcus, Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava was awarded the Pólya Prize in 2014 for their resolution of the Kadison–Singer problem and later the Michael and Sheila Held Prize in 2021 for their solution to long-standing conjectures in the study of Ramanujan graphs.