Curriculum Vit½ of Peter B. Shalen Address Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (M/C 249) University of Illinois at Chicago 851 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607-7045 312-996-4825 (FAX) 312-996-1491 E-mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D. 1972 Harvard University B.A. 1966 Harvard College Pensionnaire ¶etranger, Ecole Normale Sup¶erieure, Paris, 1966-67 Employment 1985|present Professor University of Illinois at Chicago 1998-99 Long-term visitor, University of Chicago June, 1998 Professeur Invit¶e Universit¶e Paul Sabatier, Toulouse June, 1997 Professeur Invit¶e Universit¶e de Bourgogne June, 1996 Professeur Invit¶e University of Paris June, 1993 Professeur Invit¶e Universit¶e Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Spring 1985 Member Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley Fall 1984 Professeur Associ¶e University of Paris (Orsay) Spring 1984 Professeur Associ¶e University of Nantes 1983|85 Professor Rice University 1981|82 Visiting Scholar Columbia University 1979|83 Associate Professor Rice University 1978|79 Visiting Member Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, N.Y.U. 1974|79 Assistant Professor Rice University 1971|74 J.F. Ritt Assistant Professor Columbia University 1 Professional Honors Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship for Basic Research, 1977|79. Invited one-hour address, A.M.S. Regional Meeting, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, October, 1980. J. Clarence Karcher Lectures in Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, April 1980. Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Spring 1985, and December 1988. Invited 45-minute address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, California, August 1986. Fourth annual Zabrodsky lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. December, 1990. University Scholar award, University of Illinois, 1996 Invited visits, American Institute of Mathematics, May 2000 and May 2002. Distinguished Lecture Series (three lectures), Technion-IIT, Haifa, December 2000. Special Instructional Activities Columbia University Designed and gave course on piecewise linear and low-dimensional topology. Rice University Designed and gave courses on: Crystallographic groups The Smith conjecture Groups of polynomial growth UIC Designed and gave courses on: Low-dimensional topology, 1986|87 In¯nite groups, 1989|90 Hyperbolic geometry, 1991|92 Geometric group theory, 1992|93 Geometric group theory (di®erent course), 1993|94 Topological transformation groups, 1994|95 In¯nite groups, 1998|99 Developed and taught transition course for new mathematics majors, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 2000 Developed and taught sequel to transition course, Fall 1997 Independent Study Courses (Undergraduates) A. Boris, Winter 1991 R. Jahnke, Winter 1991 M. Calo, UIC, Spring 1994 D. Carnow and B. Kla®, Summer 1996 2 Graduate Student Supervision Thesis Director for Francisco Escobar, M.A., Rice University, 1976 Claude Lebrun, M.A., Rice University, 1977 Sa'ar Hersonsky, Ph.D., UIC, 1994 Teodoro Sorgo, Ph.D., UIC, 1997 David Krebes, Ph.D., UIC, 1997 Bryan Mosher, Ph.D., UIC, 1998 Nathan Dun¯eld, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999 (with Mel Rothenberg) Yong Hou, Ph.D., UIC, 2000 Andrew Przeworski, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000 (with Mel Rothenberg) Benjamin Kla®, Ph.D., UIC, 2003 Thesis Defense Committee Seth Alpert, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974 Marcelo Kupferwasser, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975 Aaron Cohn, M.A., Rice University, 1983 A. Lopez, th¶ese du 3e cycle, Orsay, 1984 Fr¶ed¶eric Paulin, Ph.D., Orsay, 1987 Mohan Ramachandran, Ph.D., UIC, 1990 Sharon Roberts, UIC Beatrice Hewitt, UIC Damien Gaboriau, Universit¶e Paul Sabatier, 1993 Joan Porti, Universit¶e Paul Sabatier, 1994 Catherine Labruy¶ere, Universit¶e de Bourgogne, 1997 Fernando Souza, UIC, June, 2000 Special Topic Exam Committee (Ph.D. students) J. Robert Myers, Rice University, 1977 John Rice, Rice University, 1980 Oral Prelim Exam (Ph.D. students) Yi-jing Xu, UIC, 1988 Niandong Shi, UIC, 1989 Xian-dong Hou, UIC, 1989 Chris Browne, UIC, 1991 Bea Hewitt, UIC, 1992 David Krebes, UIC Reading Courses (UIC) S. Hersonsky, 1991-92 S. Hersonsky, 1992-93 T. Sorgo, 1992-93 B. Kla®, 1997-98, 1998-99 Y. Hou, Spring 1998 V. Ho, Spring 2000 3 Editorships Member, Editorial Board for Research Announcements, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Jan. 1988|Dec. 1990 Assoc. Editor, Journal of Knot Theory and its Rami¯cations, 1991|present Member, Editorial Committee, Transactions and Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc., Feb. 1992|Jan. 2000 Geometric Topology Editor, February 1992|January 1997 Managing Editor and Chairman of Editorial Committee, Feb. 1994|Jan. 2000 Professional Activities Referee for N.S.F. grant proposals, 1974|present Referee for N.S.A. grant proposals, 1992, 1993, 1995 Referee for Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation proposal, 2001 Outside consultation for hiring and tenure, each year from 1983 to present Organized Special Year in Geometry (1987-88) at UIC, with S. Hurder and S. Yau. Member (with R. Alperin (Chair) and H. Bass) of organizing committee, Workshop on Arboreal Group Theory, M.S.R.I., Sept. 1988. Member of Council, American Mathematical Society, Jan. 1994|Feb. 2000 Member of Comit¶e Scienti¯que, Conference on Geometric Methods in Low Dimensions, Lyon, July, 1994. Member of Policy Review Committee for Meetings and Conferences, American Mathematical Society, 1996 Member of CPUB Subcommittee on Books and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, 1999 Member of organizing committee, MSRI Workshop on Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory, May 2000. Leader of break-out session on transition courses, Symposium on Excellence in Teaching of Mathematics and Science, UIC, March, 2002. Member of advisory committee, Centre de recherches math¶ematiques, Universit¶e de Montr¶eal, 2003|present Co-organizer (with Parameswaran Sankaran) of Special Session in Algebraic and Geometric Topology, AMS-India joint meeting, Bangalore, December 2003. Referee for: Acta Mathematica Annals of Mathematics Annals of Mathematics Studies Arkiv fÄor Matematik Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici Geometry and Topology Inventiones Mathematicae Journal of the American Mathematical Society Journal of Di®erential Geometry 4 Journal of Knot Theory and its Rami¯cations Journal of the London Mathematical Society Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra Mathematische Annalen Michigan Mathematics Journal Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Proceedings of Edinburgh Mathematical Society Topology Topology and Its Applications Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Administrative and Committee Service Columbia University Organized J.F. Ritt Lectures, 1973-74 Rice University Department Advisor to Sophomores and Juniors, 1973|75 Department Colloquium Chairman, 1975-76; 1977-78 Associate of Hanszen College, 1975|80 Coordinator of Mathematics Tutorial Program, 1975|78 Chairman, Department Library Committee, 1976|78 Department Undergraduate Committee, 1976|78 Putnam Exam Coordinator, 1977-78; 1980-81 Department Personnel Committee, 1979-80 Department Graduate Admissions Committee, 1980-81 Graduate Council, 1982-83 UIC: University Subcommittee on Research of the Strategic Planning Committee, 1986-87 UIC: Department French language examiner for Ph.D. candidates in Mathematics, 1985|present Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1985|present Faculty Appointments Committee, 1986|89, 1998|2000 Committee X, 1988 Advisory Committee, 1988-89 Chairman, March|Oct. 1989 Topology Personnel Review Committee, 1987|present Chairman, 1988|90 CEO Search Committee, Spring 1989 Colloquium Chairman, 1987-88 Algebra Prelim Exam committee, 1988|90, 2000 Topology Masters Exam committee, 1987-88 and 1990-91. Algebra Masters Exam committee, 1988-89 Analysis Masters Exam committee, 1992 Number Theory Masters Exam committee, 2000-2002 CEO search committee, 1988-89 Personnel Review Committee for Topology, 1989|present Masters exam committee (Paper B) in Algebra, 1988|90 5 Ph.D. prelim committee in Algebra, 1988|90 Graduate Studies Committee, 1991|present Chairman, 1994|95 Pure Math Committee, Spring 1991|present Pure Math Core Committee, 1999|present Promotion and Tenure Committee Invited Lectures at Professional Meetings \In¯nitely divisible elements in 3-manifold groups," Topology Festival, Cornell University, May 1974. \Seifert ¯bered spaces in 3-manifolds," Geometric Topology Conf., University of Georgia, Aug. 1977. \Old and new results in 3-manifolds," Indiana University, (5 lectures), Oct. 1978. \PSL2(C) and incompressible surfaces," Sympos. on the Smith Conjecture, Columbia University, April 1979. \3-manifolds, linear groups, and algebraic varieties," A.M.S. Meeting, University of Wisconsin at Park- side, (1 hr. invited address), Oct. 1980. \Varieties of group representations and splittings of 3-manifolds," Topology Conf., University of Geor- gia, June 1981. \3-manifolds, trees, and 22 matrices," Topology Mini-Conf., Indiana University, April 1983. \Laminations, trees, and degeneration of hyperbolic structures," Special Year in Geometry and Topol- ogy, University of Maryland, (5 lectures), Oct. 1983. \Algebro-geometric aspects of 3-manifold theory," Sympos. on Hyperbolic Geometry and Kleinian Groups, University of Warwick, (5 lectures), June 1984. \Dehn surgery and 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group," Conf. on Hyperbolic Geometry, Uni- versity of Durham, July 1984. \Representations of 3-manifold groups," Three-Manifolds Workshop, M.S.R.I., Jan. 1985. \Group actions on trees," Mini-Conf. on