Burt Totaro

Burt Totaro
Born 1967 (age 47–48)
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
Alma mater Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis K-Theory and Algebraic Cycles (1989)
Doctoral advisor Shoshichi Kobayashi
Notable awards Whitehead Prize (2000)
Prix Franco-Britannique (2001)

Burt James Totaro, FRS (b. 1967), is an American mathematician at UCLA, specializing in Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology.

Biography

Totaro participated in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth while in grade school. At the age of 13, he enrolled at Princeton University.[1] He graduated in 1984 and went on to graduate school at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989.[2] In 2000, he was elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge. In the same year, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.[3]

In 2009, Totaro was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.[4] Since 2009, he has been one of three managing editors of the journal Compositio Mathematica.[5] In 2012, he became a Professor in the UCLA Department of Mathematics.[6]

Mathematical work

Totaro's work is partly influenced by the Hodge conjecture, and is based on the connections and application of topology to algebraic geometry. His work has applications in a number of diverse areas of mathematics, from representation theory to Lie theory to group cohomology.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly
  2. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Citation for Burt Totaro
  4. ↑ "Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of the Royal Society". Cambridge University news. 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  5. ↑ "Editorial Board of Compositio Mathematica".
  6. ↑ "UCLA Department of Mathematics newsletter".
  7. ↑ Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of the Royal Society

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