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Stephen Bigelow

Stephen John Bigelow is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [1] He is known for his proof that braid groups are linear, concurrently with and independently of another proof by Daan Krammer. [2]

Bigelow earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1992 and 1994 from the University of Melbourne. [1] He completed his PhD in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley under the joint supervision of Robion Kirby and Andrew Casson. [3] He returned to Melbourne for two years as a research fellow before joining the UCSB faculty in 2002. [1]

Bigelow was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002, speaking on representations of braid groups. [4] He was a Sloan Research Fellow for 2002–2006. [1] In 2012 he was designated as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Stephen Bigelow: Curriculum Vitae (PDF), retrieved 2015-11-23.
  2. Bigelow, Stephen J. (2001), "Braid groups are linear", Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 14 (2): 471–486, doi: 10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00361-1 , MR   1815219 . Featured review in MathSciNet by Darryl McCullough.
  3. Stephen Bigelow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union , retrieved 2015-11-23.
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2015-11-23.