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Professor Daniel Pollack serves as a Professor and Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences at the University of Washington. He holds a BA/MA from the University of Pennsylvania (1986) and a PhD from Stanford University (1991). His research focuses on differential geometry, general relativity, and partial differential equations, with notable contributions to initial data engineering, spacetime geometry, and geometric analysis. His work bridges theoretical physics and pure mathematics, addressing foundational questions in general relativity such as topological censorship and the Einstein constraint equations.
Key research areas include geometric flows (e.g., Schrödinger maps into Kähler manifolds), singular Yamabe metrics, and the moduli space of constant mean curvature surfaces. Recent publications (2019–2010) explore causal geodesic incompleteness and null geodesic properties in spacetimes. Earlier work (2007–2005) addressed the Einstein-scalar field constraints and initial data gluing techniques.
As Divisional Dean, Pollack oversees academic programs in natural sciences while maintaining an active research agenda. His technical contributions include developing methods for constructing non-vacuum solutions to Einstein’s equations and analyzing critical elliptic problems in geometric contexts.
