CURRICULUM VITAE
Richard S. Palais
Date of Birth: May 22, 1931
Education
- 1952 B.A. Harvard College
- 1954 M.A. Harvard University
- 1956 Ph.D. Harvard
University
Career
Principal Professional Positions:
- 1956-58 Instructor University of
Chicago
- 1958-60 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow &
Member, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
- 1960-62 Assistant Professor, Brandeis
University
- 1962-65 Associate Professor, Brandeis
University
- 1965-2003 Professor, Brandeis
University
- 2004- Adjunct Professor University of California
at Irvine
Other Professional Positions and
Honors:
- 1963-64 NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
& Member, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
- 1965-67 Sloan Foundation Research
Fellow
- 1966-68 Chairman, Dept. of Mathematics,
Brandeis University
- 1965-82 Editor, The Journal of
Differential Geometry
- 1966-69 Editor, Transactions of the
American Mathematical Society
- 1968-72 Member, NSF Advisory Panel for
Mathematics
- 1970 Invited Speaker, International
Congress of Mathematicians, Nice
- 1971-81 Trustee, American Mathematical
Society
- 1974 Convenor of the Panel on Global
Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds, Helsinki International
Congress of Mathematicians
- 1974-75 Member, Princeton Institute for
Advanced Study
- 1976-78 Professor, Univ. of Calif.,
SantaCruz (on leave from Brandeis)
- 1978-80 AMS Representative to
CBMS
- 1979-83 Member, U.S. Committee for
Mathematics
- 1979 Founding Chairman of TUG (TEX Users
Group)
- 1980 Elected Fellow of AAAS
- 1981 Invited Speaker, US-China Symposium
on Differential Geometry and Differential Equations,
Shanghai-Anhui
- 1981-82 Gastprofessor, Universitat Bonn
Member, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik
- 1984-85 Member, Mathematical Sciences
Research Institute, Berkeley
- 1987 Visiting Professor, Nankai
Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, China
- 1987 Chairman, AMS Committee on
Communications
- 1988-89 Chairman, AMS Committee on the
Electronic Exchange of Information
- 1990-1995 Managing Editor, Bulletin of
the AMS, Research Expository Papers
- 1993-1995 Chair of the AMS Committee on
Publication Policy
- 1996-1997 Chair of the AAAS Section A
(Mathematics)
Published Monographs
- 1957 A Global Formulation of the Lie
Theory of Transformation Groups, Memoirs of the AMS
#22.
- 1960 The Classification of G-spaces,
Memoirs of the AMS #36.
- 1964 Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer Index
Theorem, Annals of Math. Study No. 4.
- 1968 Foundations of Global Non-linear
Analysis, Benjamin & Co. NY.
- 1981 The Geometrization of Physics,
Tsing-Hua University Press, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
- 1981 Real Algebraic Differential
Topology, Mathematics Lecture Series #10, Publish or Perish Press
Inc.
- 1988 Critical Point Theory and
Submanifold Geometry, Lecture Notes in Mathematics
#1353,Springer-Verlag, NY (with C.-L.Terng)
Research Publications
- A definition of the exterior derivative
in terms of Lie derivatives, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1954)
902-908.
- A Global Formulation of the Lie Theory
of Transformation Groups, Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc. 22
(1957).
- On the differentiability of isometries,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1957) 805-808.
- On a class of transformation groups,
(with A.M. Gleason), Amer. J. Math. 79 (1957),631-648.
- Imbedding of compact,
differentiable,transformation groups in orthogonal
representations, J. Math. and Mech. 6 (1957), 674-678.
- A covering homotopy theory and the
classification of G-spaces, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.U.S.A. 45 (1959),
857-859.
- Natural operations on differential
forms, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 92 (1959),125-141.
- Extending diffeomorphisms, Proc. Amer.
Math. Soc. 11 (1960), 274-277.
- The Classification of G-spaces, Memoirs
of the Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1960).
- Sprays, (with W. Ambrose and I. M.
Singer), An. Acad. Brasil Ci. 32 (1960) 163-178.
- Slices and equivariant embeddings, (a
chapter from Seminar on Transformation Groups, Ann. of Math. Study
#6) 1960
- On the cohomology of Lie rings, Proc. of
Symposim on Differential Geometry, Tucson, Feb. 1960.
- On the local triviality of the
restriction map for embeddings, Comm. Math. Helv. 34 (1960),
306-312.
- Logarithmically exact differential
forms, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1961), 50-52.
- Torus bundles over tori, (with T. E.
Stewart), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1961), 26-40.
- On the existence of slices for actions
of non-compact Lie groups, Annals of Math. 73 (1961),
295-323.
- The cohomology of differentiable
transformation groups, (with T. E. Stewart) Amer. J. Math. 83
(1961), 623-644.
- Equivalence of nearly differentiable
actions of a compact group, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 67 (1961),
362-364.
- Deformations of compact differentiable
transformation groups, (with T. E. Stewart) Amer. J. Math. 82
(1960) 935-937.
- Uncountably many inequivalent actions of
a compact group on R^n,(with R. Richardson), Proc. Amer. Math.
Soc. 14 (1963), 374-377.
- Morse theory on Hilbert manifolds,
Topology 2 (1963), 299-340.
- A generalized Morse theory, (with S.
Smale), Research Announcement, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (1964),
165-172.
- On the homotopy type of certain groups
of operators, Topology 3 (1965) 271-279.
- Homeomorphic conjugacy of automorphisms
on the Torus, (with L. Adler), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (1965)
1222-1225.
- Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer Index
Theorem, Annals of Math. Study, no.4, 1964, Princeton Univ.
Press.
- Homotopy theory of infinite dimensional
manifolds, Topology 5 (1966) 1-16.
- Lusternik-Schnirelman theory on Banach
manifolds, Topology 5 (1966) 115-132.
- Foundations of Global Non-linear
Analysis, Benjamin and Co. New York, 1968.
- The classification of real division
algebras, Amer. Math. Monthly, 75, (1968 ) 366-368
- Manifolds of sections of fiber bundles
and the calculus of variation, Proc.Symp.on Non-linear Analysis,
vol. XVIII, Amer. Math. Soc. 195-205.
- Critical point theory and the minimax
principle, Proc. Symp. on Global Analysis, vol. XV, Amer. Math.
Soc. 185-212.
- The Morse Lemma for Banach spaces, Bull.
Amer. Math. Soc. 75 (1969) 968-971.
- When proper maps are closed, Proc. Amer.
Math. Soc. 24 (1969) 835
- C^1 action of compact Lie groups on
compact manifolds are C^1 equivalent to C-infinity actions, Amer.
Jour. Math. 88 (1970) 748-760.
- Banach manifolds of fiber bundle
sections, Proc. International Cong. Math. Nice, 1970, vol. 2,
243-249, 1971.
- Natural bundles have finite order, (with
C. L. Terng), Topology, 16 (1977) 271-277.
- A topological Gauss-Bonnet theorem,
Jour. of Diff. Geometry, 13 (1978) 385-398.
- An analogue of Hartogs' theorem in an
algebraic setting, Amer. Jour. Math. 100 (1978),
387-406.
- The Principal of Symmetric Criticality,
Comm. Math. Physics, 69 (1979) 19-30.
- The Geometrization of Physics, Tsing Hua
Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1981.
- Real Algebraic Differential Geometry,
Math. Lecture series #10, Publish or Perish Inc. 1981.
- Warped product Einstein manifolds and
Hessian PDE, (with A. Derdzinski and C.-L. Terng), preliminary
report in Proc. of 1982 Munster Conference on Differential
Geometry.
- Applications of the symmetric
criticality principal in mathematical physics and differential
geometry, Proc. Symp., Shanghai/China 1981, 247-301
(1984).
- Geometry and topology of isoparametric
submanifolds, (with W. Y. Hsiang and C. L. Terng), (Research
announcement), Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 82(1985)
4863-4865.
- Reduction of variables for minimal
submanifolds, (with C.L. Terng), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 98 (1986)
480-484.
- A general canonical form theorem, (with
C.L. Terng), Transactions Amer. Math. Soc., 300 (1987)
771-789.
- Geometry of canonical forms, (with C.L.
Terng), (Proceedings of the Kovaleskaya Symposium) Contemporary
Mathematics, 64 (1987) 133-151.
- Topology of isoparametric submanifolds
(with W.Y. Hsiang and C.L. Terng), Jour. of Diff. Geometry, 27
(1988) 423-460.
- Critical Point Theory and Submanifold
Geometry, (with C.-L.Terng), Lecture Notes in
Mathematics,#1353,(280 pages),Springer-Verlag, NY.
1988
- The Life and Mathematics of Shiing-Shen
Chern, in "Chern---A Great Geometer of the Twentieth Century",
edited by S.T. Yau, International Press, Hong Kong,
1992.
- Hyperpolar actions and k-flat
homogeneous spaces, (with E. Heintze, G. Thorbergsson, and C.-L.
Terng) J. reine angew. Math, 454 (1994) 163--179
- Symmetry, Criticality, and Condition C,
In "Proceedings of the Sophus Lie Memorial Conference", edited by
O. A. Laudal and B. Jahren, Scandinavian University Press (1994)
77-98
- Hyperpolar actions on symmetric spaces,
(with E. Heintze, G. Thorbergsson, and C.-L. Terng) In "Geometry,
Topology, and Physics For Raoul Bott", edited by S.T. Yau,
International Press (1995) 214-245
- The Symmetries of Solitons, Bulletin.
Amer. Math. Soc.,New Series 34, No. 4, 339-403 (1997) [ISSN
0273-0979] .
- The Visualization of Mathematics: Towards a Mathematical
Exploratorium, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 46, No.6 (June-July 1999)
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