Education
Gompf received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Robion Kirby (On invariant for Casson handles, disks and knot concordants).
mathematician university professor
Gompf received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Robion Kirby (On invariant for Casson handles, disks and knot concordants).
He is now a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research concerns the topology of 4-manifolds. In 1995 he constructed new examples of simply connected compact symplectic 4-manifolds that are not homeomorphic or diffeomorphic to complex manifolds (Kähler manifolds).
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994 in Zurich (Smooth four-manifolds and symplectic topology).
American Mathematical Society.