Gunnar Carlsson
| Gunnar E. Carlsson | |
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| Born |
22 August 1952 , Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Stanford University University of Chicago University of California, San Diego Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | R. James (Richard) Milgram |
| Doctoral students |
Henry Adams Tyler Lawson Gurjeet Singh Dev Sinha Reza Zadeh |
| Known for |
Segal conjecture Topological data analysis |
| Notable awards | Alfred P. Sloan fellow |
Gunnar E. Carlsson (born August 22, 1952) is a Swedish-born American mathematician, working in Algebraic Topology. He is known for his work on Segal's Burnside Ring conjecture, and for his work on applied algebraic topology, especially Topological Data Analysis. Currently, he is the Anne and Bill Swindells Professor at Stanford University, and co-founder of Ayasdi.
Carlsson was born in Sweden and was educated in the United States. He graduated from Redwood High School (Larkspur, California) in 1969. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976, with a dissertation written under the supervision of R. J. Milgram. He was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (1976-1978) and Professor at the University of California, San Diego (1978–86), Princeton University (1986-1991), and Stanford University (1991–present).
He has been an Ordway Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota and held a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship 1984-86. He has delivered an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California (1986); a plenary address at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society (1984); the Whittaker Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh (2011); the Rademacher Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (2011); and an invited plenary address at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2012). He was elected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to algebraic topology, particularly equivariant stable homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory, and applied algebraic topology".
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