Allen Altman

Mathematics

Division: Natural Science and Mathematics
Year Appointed: 1986

Education:
B.S., Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1964
M.S., Ph.D, Columbia University, 1968

Areas:
Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra

Positions:
University of California at San Diego 1968-1975;
Universitet i Oslo (Norway) 1971-72;
Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela 1975-1986, where he helped establish the mathematics program; MIT 1981-82;
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) 1985;
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 1983;
Northern Arizona University 1993-94.

Honors:
Fulbright, National Science Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson fellowships

Publications:
Regular contributions to Mathematical Reviews and articles in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Communications in Algebra, Advances in Mathematics, Compositio Mathematica, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and American Journal of Mathematics. He has been editor of Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, contributor to the collections Real and Complex Singularities and The Grothendieck Festschrift (Birkhauser, 1990), and author with S. Kleiman of the book Introduction to Grothendieck Duality Theory (Springer-Verlag, 1970).

Contact Information:
Office: Hall College Center, 2nd floor
Phone: (413)-528-7333
Fax: (413)-528-7365
Email: altman@simons-rock.edu
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