Eduard Looijenga

Looijenga (left) with Herbert Kurke , Bonn workshop 2007

Eduard JN Looijenga (* 1948 ) is a Dutch mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry, especially singularity theory (also in differential topology).

Looijenga studied mathematics from 1965 at the University of Amsterdam with a diploma in 1971. After that he was at IHES until 1973 . In 1974 he received his doctorate under Nicolaas Kuiper at the University of Amsterdam ( Structural stability of smooth families of functions ${\ displaystyle C ^ {\ infty}}$ ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Liverpool and from 1975 professor at Radboud University Nijmegen . In 1987 he became professor in Amsterdam and in 1991 at Utrecht University .

In 1990 he was visiting professor at the University of Michigan and in 1991 at the University of Utah . He was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1987), several times at IHES, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute , the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the Mittag-Leffler Institute , the University of Bonn, Columbia University, Yale University and Tsinghua University.

In 1978 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki ( Homogeneous spaces associated to certain semi-universal deformations ).

He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1995) and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2012 . From 2001 to 2004 he was head of the Dutch Mathematical Society.

Fonts

with CG Gibson, K. Wirthmüller, A. du Plessis Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings , Lecture Notes in Mathematics 552, Springer Verlag 1976
Isolated singular points on complete intersections , London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Cambridge University Press 1984
The complement of the bifurcation variety of a simple singularity , Inv. Math. 23, 1974, pp. 105-116
A period mapping for certain semi-universal deformations , Composition Mathematica, Volume 30, 1974, pp. 299-316
Root Systems and Elliptic Curves , Invent. Math. 38, 1976, pp. 17-32
On the semi-universal deformation of a simple elliptic singularity , Part 1, Topology, Volume 16, 1977, 257-262, Volume 17, 1978, 23-40
Invariant theory for generalized root systems , Inv. Math. 61, 1980, 1-32
Rational surfaces with an anticanonical cycle , Annals of Mathematics, 114, 1981
Intersection theory on Deligne-Mumford compactification , Sem. Bourbaki 768, Astérisque, Volume 216, 1993, pp. 187-212
with C. Faber (Ed.): Moduli of curves and abelian varieties , Vieweg 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Mathematics Genealogy Project . The results were not published, but have been taken from CTC Wall Geometric properties of generic differentiable manifolds , in Geometry and topology , Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 597, Springer Verlag, 1977, pp. 707-774.

personal data
SURNAME	Looijenga, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Looijenga, Eduard JN
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	1948

[1] Mathematics Genealogy Project . The results were not published, but have been taken from CTC Wall Geometric properties of generic differentiable manifolds , in Geometry and topology , Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 597, Springer Verlag, 1977, pp. 707-774.