Graeme Segal

Graeme Bryce Segal

Graeme Segal in Berkeley, 1982
Born (1941-12-21) 21 December 1941
Residence Oxford, United Kingdom
Nationality Australian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions St John’s College, Cambridge[1]
All Souls College, Oxford
Alma mater University of Sydney
St Catherine's College, Oxford
Thesis Equivariant K-theory (1967)
Doctoral advisor Michael Atiyah
Known for Atiyah–Segal completion theorem
Segal conjecture
Notable awards Pólya Prize (1990)
Sylvester Medal (2010)

Graeme Bryce Segal FRS[2] (born 21 December 1941) is an Australian mathematician, and professor at the University of Oxford.

Biography

Segal was educated at the University of Sydney, where he received his BSc degree in 1961. He went on to receive his D.Phil. in 1967 from St Catherine's College, Oxford; his thesis, written under the supervision of Michael Atiyah, was titled Equivariant K-theory.

His thesis was in the area of equivariant K-theory. The Atiyah–Segal completion theorem in that subject was a major motivation for the Segal conjecture, which he formulated. He has made many other contributions to homotopy theory in the past four decades, including an approach to infinite loop spaces. He was also a pioneer of elliptic cohomology, which is related to his interest in topological quantum field theory.

Segal was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice[3] and in 1990 in Kyoto.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982 and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[5] He was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society in 2010.[6]

He was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry from 1990 to 1999.

Segal was elected the President of the London Mathematical Society in 2011.

References

  1. ↑ Dr Graeme Segal - All Souls College Oxford
  2. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 December 2011. Dr Graeme Segal, elected fellow 1982
  3. ↑ Segal, G. "Equivariant stable homotopy theory." In Actes du Congrès International des Mathématiciens (Nice, 1970), vol. 2, pp. 59–63. 1970.
  4. ↑ Segal, Graeme. "Geometric aspects of quantum field theory." In Proc. Intern. Congress Kyoto 1990, Math. Soc, pp. 1387–1396. 1990.
  5. ↑ "Graeme Segal wins Sylvester Medal". All Souls College, Oxford. 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  6. ↑ "The Sylvester Medal". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2010-10-12.

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