William Allen Casselman

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William Allen Casselman , called Bill Casselman, (born November 27, 1941 in New York City ) is an American mathematician .

William Casselman, Berkeley 1969

Casselman studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1966 from Princeton University under Gorō Shimura ( Families of curves and automorphic functions ). He was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1971 and has been an Associate Professor since 1971 and Professor at the University of British Columbia since 1977 .

He deals with algebraic groups , representation theory of Coxeter groups , p-adic groups and real reductive groups and with automorphic forms ( Langlands program ).

He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki in 1978 ( Jacques modules for real reductive groups ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

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  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ William Allen Casselman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used