Jonathan Lazare Alperin

Professional life

 * 1959: Received A.B. from Harvard University
 * 1960: Received A.M. from Princeton University
 * 1961-62: Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University
 * 1962-63: C.L.E. Moore instructor at Massachussetts Institute of Technology
 * 1963-66: Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
 * 1966-70: Associate Professor at University of Chicago
 * 1970 onwards: Professor at University of Chicago
 * 1970 onwards: Professor at University of Chicago

Local representation theory
Alperin has contributed significantly to local representation theory and modular representation theory, which deal with the representation of a group in a characteristic dividing the order of the group.

Conjectures due to Alperin:


 * Alperin weight conjecture
 * Alperin-McKay conjecture

Principles and general ideas due to Alperin:


 * Lie principle relating subgroups in a general finite group to subgroups in a finite group of Lie type

Advisor
Jon Alperin's advisor was advisor::Graham Higman.

Collaborators

 * Collaborator::George Glauberman
 * Collaborator::Markus Linckelmann
 * Collaborator::Geoffrey Mason
 * Collaborator::Daniel Gorenstein
 * Collaborator::Paul Fong