Markus Rost
Markus Rost is a German mathematician who works at the intersection of topology and algebra. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002 in Beijing, China. He is a professor at the University of Bielefeld.
He is known for his work on norm varieties and for the Rost invariant. Together with J.-P. Serre he is one of the cofounders of the theory of cohomological invariants of linear algebraic groups. He has also made numerous contributions to the theory of torsors, quadratic forms, central simple algebras, Jordan algebras, exceptional groups, and essential dimension. Most of his results are available only on his webpage.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
