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==Contemporaries== | ==Contemporaries== | ||
===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]] | |||
==Students== | ==Students== | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~alperin Jon Alperin's homepage] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:19, 18 May 2008
This article is about a American group theorist (a American person working in group theory)
This article is about a person who is alive
This person is currently working at: University of Chicago
Life
Professional life
- 1959: Received A.B. from Harvard University
- 1960: Received A.M. from Princeton University
- 1961: Received Ph.D. 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
Work
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:
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
Contemporaries
Advisor
Jon Alperin's advisor was Graham Higman.