George A. Elliott

George Arthur Elliott FRSC (born 1945) is a Canadian mathematician specializing in operator algebras, K-theory, and non-commutative geometry. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics,[1] and holds a Canada Research Chair.

George A. Elliott
Citizenship	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto, Queen's University at Kingston
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1982, Killam Research Fellow, 1996–1998. Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2012
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Toronto, University of Copenhagen
Doctoral advisor	Israel Halperin

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich–1994.[2][3]

Awards and Honours

• 1982 Elected as Fellow of Royal Society of Canada.[4]
• 1996 CRM/Fields Institute Prize[5]
• 1996-1998 Killam Research Fellow.[6][7]
• 1998 Jeffery–Williams Prize.[8]
• 1999 John L. Synge Award.[9]
• 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]
• 2019 Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society[11]

References

1. "Faculty". University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
2. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897
3. "George A. Elliott. The classification problem for amenable C*-algebras" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
4. fr:Liste des membres de la Société royale du Canada (1946-1985)
5. CRM/Fields Institute Prize
6. fr:Liste des boursiers Killam, par ordre alphabétique E
7. List of Killam Research Fellows
8. Jeffery–Williams Prize
9. John L. Synge Award Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
10. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-12-02.
11. Canadian Mathematical Society’s Second Inaugural Class of Fellows Announced, Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-01-06

External links

• George A. Elliott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project