Rick Jardine

John Frederick "Rick" Jardine (born December 6, 1951 in Belleville, Canada) is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of homotopy theory, category theory, and number theory.

Biography

Jardine obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1981, under the direction of Roy Douglas. Following a research fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Dickson instructorship at the University of Chicago, he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 1984, where he is currently a professor.[1][2]

From 2002 to 2016, Jardine held a Canada Research Chair in applied homotopy theory. Since 2008, he is fellow of the Fields Institute, and has been recognized with the Coxeter–James Prize in 1992 by the Canadian Mathematical Society.[2] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.[3]

Work

Jardine is known for his work on model category structures on simplicial presheaves.

gollark: Given that our slag production makes *about* one per ten seconds (probably less), and 12.8 units of 5 coal would be needed for 1 diamond, we could get one diamond every two minutes or so.
gollark: I figured out a terrible, terrible (in the sense of being slightly cheaty) way to get diamonds:1. hook up slag production to thermal centrifuge (there's a 1 slag -> tiny gold dust + 5 coal dust recipe)2. feed coal to compactor (makes compressed coal balls; without this it would need flint, but that's easy too)3. compress the coal ball into a ... compressed coal ball4. compress the compressed coal balls into a coal chunk (usually this would require obsidian, iron or bricks, but the compactor skips that too - obsidian is automateable easily but with large power input, though)5. compress coal chunk into diamond
gollark: Oh, this is really cool, Random PSIDeas has a thing which allows me to move my camera position.
gollark: ... right, the dirt, silly me.
gollark: It would also expose the stone brick roof to the surface.

References
  1. "Full-time Faculty". Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  2. "CV of Rick Jardine". Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  3. Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018

External references
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