William Meeks

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William Meeks, Berkeley 1981

William Hamilton Meeks III (born August 8, 1947 in Washington, DC ) is an American mathematician who deals with minimal surfaces .

Meeks studied at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master’s degree in 1974 and a doctorate in 1975 under H. Blaine Lawson ( The Conformal Structure and Geometry of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces in ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of California, Los Angeles and at IMPA in 1977/78 as an assistant professor and from 1979 to 1983 as a professor (in between he was an assistant professor at Stanford University in 1978/79 ). In 1983/84 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1984 to 1986 professor at Rice University . From 1986 he was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . There he is George David Birkhoff Professor of Mathematics.

He is known as an expert for minimal surfaces and is also dedicated to their computer graphic visualization. He worked u. a. with David Allen Hoffman . In 1985/86 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 2006/07 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (Recent progress on the geometry of surfaces in and on the use of computer graphics as a research tool).

Fonts

  • with Joaquin Perez The Classical Theory of Minimal Surfaces , Bulletin AMS, Volume 48, 2011, pp. 325-407, online
  • with Rosenberg The uniqueness of the helicoid. Ann. of Math. (2) 161 (2005), no. 2, 727-758.
  • with Hoffman Embedded minimal surfaces of finite topology , Ann. of Math. 131: 1-34 (1990)
  • with Simon , Yau Embedded minimal surfaces, exotic spheres, and manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. Ann. of Math. (2) 116 (1982) no. 3, 621-659.
  • A survey of the geometric results in the classical theory of minimal surfaces, Bol. Soc. Brazil. Mat. 12: 29-86 (1981).
  • The geometry, topology, and existence of periodic minimal surfaces, in: Differential geometry: partial differential equations on manifolds (Los Angeles, CA, 1990), Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Vol. 54, Amer. Math. Soc., 1993, pp. 333-374
  • Geometric results in classical minimal surface theory, in: Surveys in differential geometry, Volume 8, Internat. Press, Somerville / Massachusetts 2003, pp. 269-306

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project . Published in Bulletin AMS, 83, 1977, 134
personal data
SURNAME Meeks, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meeks, William Hamilton; Meeks, William Hamilton III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC