William Gerard Dwyer (born 1947) is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology and group theory. For many years he was a professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the William J. Hank Family Professor Emeritus.
William Gerard Dwyer | |
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Born | 1947 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
Thesis | Strong Convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore Spectral Sequence (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Marinus Kan |
Doctoral students | Julie Bergner |
He was born in 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Dwyer completed his B.A. at Boston College in 1969.[1]
He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. His doctoral thesis was on Strong Convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore Spectral Sequence and his doctoral advisor was Daniel Kan.[2] Afterwards he taught at Yale University and visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey before joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame.[3]
In 1998 Dwyer was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[4] In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the University of Warsaw.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He is currently emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.[1]