Ronald J. Stern
Ronald John Stern (born 20 January 1947) is a mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and gauge theory.[1] He is emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine.[2]
Stern was the first in his family to receive a college education and earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.[3] He then earned his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the joint supervision of Robert Duncan Edwards (de) and Robert F. Brown.[4]
Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1989, Stern was a professor at the University of Utah and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Hawaii.[3]
He was an Invited Speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Berlin.[5]
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
Selected papers
[edit]These are his most cited papers (according to Google Scholar), they are all joint work with Ron Fintushel:[7]
- "Knots, links, and 4-manifolds", Inventiones mathematicae 134 (2), pp. 363–400 (1998)
- "Rational blowdowns of smooth 4-manifolds", Journal of Differential Geometry 46 (2), pp. 181–235 (1997)
- "Instanton homology of Seifert fibred homology three spheres", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 61 (3), pp. 109–137 (1990)
- "Immersed spheres in 4-manifolds and the immersed Thom conjecture", Turkish Journal of Mathematics 19 (2), pp. 145–157 (1995)
- "Pseudofree orbifolds", Annals of Mathematics, pp. 335–364 (1985)
- "Constructing lens spaces by surgery on knots", Mathematische Zeitschrift 175 (1), pp. 33–51 (1980)
- "The blowup formula for Donaldson invariants", Annals of Mathematics 143 (3), pp. 529–546 (1996)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Ronald J. Stern". Faculty.sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- ↑ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". Faculty.uci.edu. 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- 1 2 Addison, Lisa; Canalis, John (13 June 1998). "UCI Names Dean of Physical Sciences". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ronald Stern". Genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- ↑ "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". Mathunion.org. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- ↑ "Fellows of the AMS by Institution". Ams.org. 2015-04-13. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- ↑ "Ronald J. Stern - Google Scholar Citations". Retrieved 2015-06-18.
External links
[edit]- "Publications, Ronald J. Stern". University of California, Irvine. (publications with online links)
