William Gerard Dwyer

William Gerard Dwyer
Born 1947
Jersey City, New Jersey
Nationality American
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Notre Dame
Doctoral advisor Daniel Marinus Kan

William Gerard Dwyer (born 1947) is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology and group theory. For many years he was a professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the William J. Hank Family Professor Emeritus.

Life

He was born in 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Career

Dwyer completed his B.A. at Boston College in 1969.[1]

He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. His doctoral thesis was on Strong Convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore Spectral Sequence and his doctoral advisor was Daniel Kan.[2]

In 1998 Dwyer was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[3] In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the University of Warsaw.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He is currently emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.[1]

Publications

  • Dwyer, William G. (1975), "Exotic convergence of the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence", Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 19 (4): 607–617, ISSN 0019-2082, MR 0383409
  • Dwyer, William G.; Wilkerson, Clarence W. (1994), "Homotopy fixed-point methods for Lie groups and finite loop spaces", Annals of Mathematics, 2, 139 (2): 395–442, doi:10.2307/2946585, MR 1274096
  • Dwyer, William G.; Spaliński, Jan (1995), "Homotopy theories and model categories", Handbook of algebraic topology, Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 73–126, doi:10.1016/B978-044481779-2/50003-1, MR 1361887

References

  1. 1 2 "Home Page at the University of Notre Dame".
  2. ↑ William Gerard Dwyer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Dwyer, William G. "Lie groups and p-compact groups." In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. 2, pp. 433–442. 1998.
  4. ↑ "William G. Dwyer, Doctor Honoris Causa" (PDF).
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