Alejandro Ádem

Alejandro Ádem in Vancouver 2016

Alejandro Ádem Díaz de León (born November 24, 1961 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican - American mathematician who studies algebra and topology .

Ádem received his bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1982 and received his PhD from Princeton University under William Browder in 1986 ( Finite Transformation Groups and their Homology Representation ). As a post-doctoral student he was Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University until 1989 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1989/90 . From 1989 he was Assistant Professor , from 1992 Associate Professor and from 1996 Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . From 1999 to 2002 he headed the mathematics faculty there. He has been Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) since 2008 . Among other things, Ádem was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, at the MSRI (on whose advisory board he was), at the ETH Zurich , in Barcelona, at the Universities of Paris VII and XIII and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Among other things, he dealt with group cohomology , sporadic simple groups , arithmetic groups , K-theory and orbic folds . In 1985 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. In 2015 he received the Jeffery Williams Prize . He is co-editor of the Transactions and Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society , of which he is a fellow.

Fonts

with Johann Leida, Yongbin Ruan: Orbifolds and stringy topology. Cambridge University Press 2007
with RJ Milgram: Cohomology of Finite Groups. Springer, Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences, 1994, 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Ádem, Alejandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ádem Díaz de León, Alejandro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mexico city