Alejandro Adem
Alejandro Adem is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 2005 and the holder of a Canada Research Chair at UBC. He was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008 - 2015 and since 2015 is the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs Canada.[1]
Adem did his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, earning a B.S. in1982.[1] He earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University, under the supervision of William Browder.[2] He then worked as Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1986-89) before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; he moved to UBC in 2005.[1] In 2012, Adem became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] His main areas of research are algebraic topology and the cohomology of groups. Since 2013 he is managing editor of the Memoirs and the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.[1] In 2015 Adem's research contributions were recognized by the Jeffery-Williams Prize, which was awarded to him by the Canadian Mathematical Society.[4]
Books
- with Johann Leida, Yongbin Ruan: Orbifolds and stringy topology. Cambridge University Press 2007
- with R. J. Milgram: Cohomology of Finite Groups. Springer, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 1994, 2004