William G. Dwyer

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William Gerard Dwyer (* 1947 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American mathematician who studies algebraic topology .

Life

Dwyer graduated from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his doctorate in 1973 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Daniel Marinus Kan ( Strong Convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore Spectral Sequence ). In the 1970s he was at Yale University and in 1975/76 at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). He is a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame . In 1981 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

Dwyer deals with homotopy theory . In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (Lie groups and p-compact groups).

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  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to IAS 1980 membership book
  2. ^ William G. Dwyer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used