Richard Palais

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Richard Sheldon Palais (born May 22, 1931 in Lynn , Massachusetts ) is an American mathematician who deals with differential geometry and global analysis .

Richard Palais (right) and Chuu-Lian Terng 2010 in Oberwolfach

Palais studied at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952, his master's degree in 1954, and his doctorate in 1956 with Andrew Gleason and George Mackey (A Global Formulation of the Lie Theory of Transformation Groups, Memoir of the AMS 1957). From 1956 to 1958 he was an instructor at the University of Chicago and from 1958 to 1960 at the Institute for Advanced Study (as well as 1963/64, 1968/69, 1974/75).

From 1960 he was at Brandeis University, first as an assistant professor, from 1962 as an associate professor and from 1965 as a professor. 1966 to 1968 he was chairman of the mathematics department. He stayed in Brandeis until his retirement in 2003.

From 1976 to 1978 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and 1981/82 visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn . 1984/85 he was a member of the MSRI in Berkeley and 1987 visiting professor of the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin . From 2004 Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Irvine , where he developed software for the visualization of mathematics.

In addition to differential geometry, the theory of compact, differentiable transformation groups, geometry of submanifolds, Morse theory , non-linear global analysis, he also dealt with the theory of solitons and the visualization of mathematics.

He is married to the mathematician Chuu-Lian Terng , a professor at Northeastern University and now also in Irvine.

From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1970 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Nice (Banach manifolds of fiber bundle sections). From 1971 to 1978 he was a trustee of the American Mathematical Society. From 1965 to 1982 he was editor of the Journal of Differential Geometry and 1966 to 1969 of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. In 1979 he was co-founder and chairman of the TeX user group. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

His PhD students include Karen Uhlenbeck , Leslie Lamport and Edward Bierstone .

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