Alejandro Ádem
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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alejandro Ádem in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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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 |