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He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1966 from Washington University in Saint Louis under Ray Kunze with thesis Plancherel Transform of the Nilpotent Participant of and Some Applications to the Representation Theory of.
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Kenneth Irwin Gross
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Gross received from Brandeis University his bachelor"s degree in 1960 and his master"s degree in 1962. He was an assistant professor from 1966 to 1968 at Tulane University and an assistant professor from 1968 to 1973 at Dartmouth College. He became in 1973 an associate professor and eventually a full professor at the University of North Carolina before resigning in 1981.
From 1981 to 1985 he was the chair of the mathematics department of the University of Wyoming.
In 1988 Gross became a professor at the University of Vermont, where he served as chair of the department of mathematics and statistics from 1988 to 1992. On a leave of absence he was for two years (2003–2005) at Lesley University, where he developed the mathematics program
Gross has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Utah, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Drexel University, Macquarie University, and Australia"s University of Newcastle. He has twice served as a divisional program director for the National Science Foundation.
He is the director of the Vermont Mathematics Initiative.
He does research on harmonic analysis, group representation theory, analysis on LIe groups and homogeneous spaces, special functions, Fourier analysis, and mathematical applications to physics and multivariate statistics. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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