One of Stern's foremost accomplishments is his proof (joint with Leslie D. Saper) of the Zucker conjecture concerning locally symmetric spaces.
He has been the mathematics department chairman but has focused primarily on research and teaching, with major grant support from the National Science Foundation.
[2] Since 2010, Stern has spoken to advanced math audiences at the Newton Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, U.C.
Irvine, Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland, and multiple academic groups.
[3] Prior to Duke, Stern was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985.
Stern is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and has won an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
B Charbonneau and M Stern, Asymptotic Hodge Theory of Vector Bundles, Geometry and Topology, vol.
A Degeratu and M Stern, Witten Spinors on Nonspin Manifolds, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol.
I Melnikov, C Quigley, S Sethi and M Stern, Target spaces from chiral gauge theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.
M Stern, Fixed point theorems from a de Rham perspective, Asian Journal of Mathematics, vol.
Stern, B fields from a Luddite perspective, in Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS3) (2004) 10.
S Paban, S Sethi and M Stern, I. Non-commutativity and supersymmetry, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.
MA Stern, Quantum Mechanical Mirror Symmetry, D Branes, and B fields, eprint (2002) [02091292] 12.
R Britto-Pacumio, A Maloney, A Strominger and M Stern, Spinning bound states of two and three black holes, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.
W Pardon and M Stern, Pure hodge structure on the L2-cohomology of varieties with isolated singularities, Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, vol.
M Stern and P Yi, Counting Yang-Mills dyons with index theorems, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol.
S Sethi and M Stern, Invariance theorems for supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, vol.
S Sethi and M Stern, Supersymmetry and the Yang-Mills effective action at finite N, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.
S Paban, S Sethi and M Stern, Summing up instantons in three-dimensional Yang-Mills theories, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, vol.
S Sethi and M Stern, D-brane bound states redux, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol.
S Paban, S Sethi and M Stern, Constraints from extended supersymmetry in quantum mechanics, Nuclear Physics B, vol.
S Paban, S Sethi and M Stern, Supersymmetry and higher derivative terms in the effective action of Yang-Mills theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.
S Sethi, M Stern and E Zaslow, Monopole and dyon bound states in N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories, Nuclear Physics, Section B, vol.
Bill Pardon, Mark A Stern, Pure Hodge structures on the L2-cohomology of varieties with isolated singularities., J. Reine Angew.
Sonia Paban, Savdeep Sethi, and Mark A. Stern, Summing Instantons in 3 dimensional Yang-Mills theories, Adv.
S. Paban, S. Sethi, Mark A Stern, Supersymmetry and higher derivative terms in the effective action of Yang-Mills, J.
Mark A. Stern, L^2-Cohomology and index theory of noncompact manifolds, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Math.
L. Saper, Mark A. Stern, Appendix to an article of Rapaport, Zeta functions of Picard Modular Varieties, R.P.
Mark A. Stern, Eta invariants and hermitian locally symmetric spaces, J. Diff.