Wilberd van der Kallen

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Wilberd Leo Johan van der Kallen (born 15 January 1947 in Nieuwer-Amstel) [1] is a Dutch mathematician.

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W. L. J. van der Kallen completed his undergraduate study of mathematics and physics at Utrecht University. [2] There he received his PhD in 1973 with thesis advisor T. A. Springer and thesis Infinitesimally central extensions of Chevalley groups. [3] In 1969 van der Kallen became a teaching assistant in Utrecht University's Mathematics Department and has spent his career there, eventually becoming a tenured professor. His research deals with algebraic K-theory and the representation theory of algebraic groups, among other topics. He has frequently been a visiting professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. [2]

He is the author or coauthor of over 60 research articles. [2] In 1977 he published an analogue of a 1977 theorem of Andrei Suslin [4] [5] and a generalization of a 1969 theorem of Hideya Matsumoto. [6] In 1978 van der Kallen was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki. [7] His 1980 paper Homology stability for linear groups [8] has over 200 citations. His 1977 paper Rational and generic cohomology, written with 3 other mathematicians, [9] has over 240 citations.

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  1. "XI 5 Wilberd van der Kallen" (PDF). deel 10 : Albert (X 7) — wilberdk.home.xs4all.nl.
  2. 1 2 3 "Wilberd van der Kallen (with links to publication list)". Geometry and Quantum Theory (GQT) (a national Dutch mathematical research cluster).
  3. Wilberd L. J. van der Kallen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. van der Kallen, Wilberd (1977). "Another presentation for Steinberg groups" (PDF). Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). 80 (4): 304–312. doi: 10.1016/1385-7258(77)90026-9 .
  5. Suslin, A. A. (1977). "On the Structure of the Special Linear Group over Polynomial Rings". Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya. 11 (2): 221–238. Bibcode:1977IzMat..11..221S. doi:10.1070/IM1977v011n02ABEH001709.
  6. van der Kallen, W. (1977). "The of rings with many units" (PDF). Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. 10 (4): 473–515. doi: 10.24033/asens.1334 .
  7. van der Kallen, W. (1978). "Generators and relations in algebraic K-theory" (PDF). Proceedings of the International Conference of Mathematicians at Helsinki. Vol. 1. pp. 305–310.
  8. van der Kallen, Wilberd (1980). "Homology stability for linear groups". Inventiones Mathematicae. 60 (3): 269–295. Bibcode:1980InMat..60..269K. doi:10.1007/BF01390018. S2CID   54671324.
  9. Cline, Edward; Parshall, Brian; Scott, Leonard; van der Kallen, W. (197). "Rational and generic cohomology" (PDF). Inventiones Mathematicae. 39 (2): 143–163. doi:10.1007/BF01390106. S2CID   14358269.