Kiyoshi Igusa

Kiyoshi Igusa (born November 28, 1949) is a Japanese-American mathematician and a professor at Brandeis University. He works in representation theory and topology.

Education and career

He studied at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1979, under the direction of Allen Hatcher.[1][2]

From 1981 to 1983, he was a Sloan Fellow, and since 2012 he is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Personal life

Igusa's father, Jun-Ichi Igusa, was also a mathematician.

Selected publications
  • Igusa, Kiyoshi; Orr, Kent E. (2001). "Links, pictures and the homology of nilpotent groups". Topology. 40 (6): 1125–1166. doi:10.1016/s0040-9383(00)00002-1. MR 1867241.
  • Igusa, Kiyoshi (2002). Higher Franz-Reidemeister torsion. AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 31. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-3170-0. MR 1945530.
  • Goette, Sebastian; Igusa, Kiyoshi (2014). "Exotic smooth structures on topological fiber bundles II". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 366 (2): 791–832. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-2013-05858-8. MR 3130317.
  • Goodwillie, Thomas; Igusa, Kiyoshi; Ohrt, Christopher (2015). "An equivariant version of Hatcher's G/O construction". Journal of Topology. 8 (3): 675–690. arXiv:1307.5554. doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtv015. MR 3394313.
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gollark: Metatables are fun.
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gollark: ```lualocal x = [[lookmultiline string]]```
gollark: They can, if you use COOL strings.

References
  1. "CV at Brandeis University" (PDF).
  2. Kiyoshi Igusa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "List of AMS fellows".
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