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Peter May Personal data Born: September 16, 1939 Family: Married, two children, two grandchildren Education Swarthmore College 1957-60, BA 1960 Princeton University 1960-64, PhD 1964 Academic Positions Yale University 196465 Instructor 196567 Assistant Professor University of Chicago Spring, 1967 Visiting Assistant Professor 196770 Associate Professor 1970 Professor Visiting Positions Fall, 1966 Institute for Advanced Study 197172 Cambridge University Spring, 1976 Cambridge University University of Chicago service 198591 Chairman, Department of Mathematics 198896 Director, Mathematical Disciplines Center 199196 Chairman, University of Chicago Council on Teaching 199195 Policy Committee of the Division of Physical Sciences 199396 Council of the Senate (93-95 Committee of the Council) 2000 Director, University of Chicago VIGRE program 2000 Organizer, University of Chicago VIGRE Summer REU 20012009 Cochair, Graduate Studies Committee 2002 Cochair, Graduate Admissions Committee Honors 1996 University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 1997 Hardy Lecturer of the London Mathematical Society
Other service 199194 Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences 1997 Organizer of the IMA summer program in algebraic topology at the University of Chicago 2004 Co-organizer of the IMA 2004 summer program: nCategories: Foundations and Applications, June 7-18, 2004 2006 Organizer of Category Theory and its Applications a conference in honor of Saunders Mac Lane at the University of Chicago, April 7-11, 2006 2007 Co-organizer of Higher categories and their applications at the Fields Institute, Toronto, JanuaryFebruary, 2007 Advisor to 47 PhDs; 7 current PhD students. Bibliography: 15 books and over 100 papers. Selected Lectures and Lecture Series: January, 1975: Hour speaker, annual meeting of the AMS, San Antonio, Texas May, 1987: Lecture series at Nankai Institute, Tianjin, China March, 1988: Lecture series at the University of Allahabad, India July, 1988: Lecture in Kinosaki, Japan December, 1990: Alexander Zabrodsky Memorial Lecture, Jerusalem, Israel August 3-8, 1993: Principal lecturer, NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska June 3, 8, 1995: Luminy, France, Conference on operads and homotopical algebra, opening and closing talks June 21, 1995: Levico Terme, Italy, Conference on K-theory December 13, 1995: Vancouver, Canada, CMS-Fields Institute session on homotopy theory March 26, 1997: Plenary speaker, Northwestern University Conference on algebraic topology June 20, 1997: The London Mathematical Society Hardy Lecture August 18-22, 1997: IMA summer program in algebraic topology at the University of Chicago (organizer and speaker) June 13, 1998: Lehigh University Geometry/Topology Conference December 11, 14, 16, 1998: Utrecht, the Netherlands, Operads in algebra and topology, opening talks in a special year on operads
October 8-10, 1999: University of Chicago Mac Lane Fest (organizer and speaker) August 24, 2000: Stanford University equivariant homotopy theory workshop May 25, 2001: Morelia, Mexico, Vth joint meeting AMS-SMM February 14, 2002: Colloquium, University of Western Ontario April 5, 2002: MSRI, Workshop on non-Abelian Hodge theory September 9-10, 2002: Newton Institute, Workshop on axiomatic and enriched homotopy theory June 15, 2003: Edmunton, B.C., Canadian Math. Soc. Summer meeting September 22. 2003: London, Ontario, Fields Institute Program on Homotopy Theory and its Applications August 19, 2005: Rosendal, Norway, conference on arithmetic of structured ring spectra, opening talk March 9, 2006: Villars, Switzerland, Alpine operad workshop, closing talk March 13, 2008: Ban, Canada, workshop on New Topological Contexts for Galois Theory and Algebraic Geometry, closing talk April 5, 2008: Indiana University, AMS meeting special session on applications of ring spectra November 10, 2008: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Algebraic Topology Conference, opening talk February 6, 2010: Michigan, Midwest Topology Conference
N eal Glassman Albert Lawrence Claude Schochet Stanley Kochman Ib M adsen M arta Herrero F rederick Cohen Zbigniew F iedorowicz Hans Ligaard Robert Bruner M ark Steinberger Robert W ellington L. Gaunce Lewis James E. M cClure Stef an W aner Anthony Elmendorf Jef f rey Caruso N icholas Kuhn U nni N amboodiri Jean P ierre Haeberly Steven Costenoble John Harris John W icks Y imin Y ang M ichael Cole Jerome W olbert M ichael M andell M aria Basterra Laura Scull Dan Isaksen Adam P rzezdziecki Chris F rench Halvard F ausk Benjamin Blander M ark Behrens Johann Sigurdsson Andrew Blumberg Rochelle P ereira M ichael Gurski Sanjeevi Krishnan Kate P onto Bertrand Guillou
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Collaborators (and current position) J. F rank Adams Andrew Baker Stef an Bauer Robert Bruner Jef f rey Caruso F rederick Cohen M ichael Cole Steven Costenoble Gustavo Comezana Anthony Elmendorf Halvard F ausk Zbigniew F iedorowicz John Greenlees V ictor Gugenheim Jean P ierre Haeberly Henning Hauschild P o Hu Stef an Jackowski Igor Kriz T om Lada Richard Lashof L. Gaunce Lewis M ichael M andell James E. M cClure R. James M ilgram F rank N eumann Robert P iacenza Stewart P riddy F rank Quinn N igel Ray Stef an Schwede Graeme Segal Johann Sigurdsson Brooke Shipley V ictor Snaith M ark Steinberger Larry T aylor Robert T homason Jorgen T ornehave Georgia T riantaf illou Stef an W aner Alex Zabrodsky P iotr Zelewski Deceased U niversity of Glasgow Bielef eld U niversity W ayne State U niversity Industry, P agef lex (publishing) Rochester U niversity Hof stra U niversity Hof stra U niversity (Out of contact) P urdue U niversity at Calumet Oslo U niversity Ohio State U niversity U niversity of Shef f ield, England Deceased F ordham U niversity Giessen U niversity, Germany W ayne State U niversity U niversity of W arsaw, P oland U niversity of M ichigan N orth Carolina State U niversity U niversity of Calif ornia at Berkeley (emeritus) Deceased Indiana U niversity P urdue U niversity Stanf ord U niversity U niversity of Leicester, England Deceased N orthwestern U niversity V irginia P olytechnic Institute and State U niversity M anchester U niversity, England Bonn U niversity, Germany Oxf ord U niversity, England U niversity of Iceland, Iceland U niversity of Illinois at Chicago U niversity of Shef f ield, England State U niversity of N ew Y ork at Albany N otre Dame Deceased Aarhus U niversity, Denmark T emple U niversity Hof stra U niversity Deceased M cM aster U niversity, Canada