Walter Whiteley

Walter John Whiteley is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.[1] He specializes in geometry and mathematics education, and is known for his expertise in structural rigidity and rigidity matroids.

Walter Whiteley
NationalityCanada
TitleProfessor
AwardsAdrien Pouliot Award
Academic background
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorGian-Carlo Rota
Academic work
DisciplineMathematician
Sub-disciplineGeometry
InstitutionsYork University

Education and career

Whiteley graduated from Queen's University in 1966.[2][3] He earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dissertation titled Logic and Invariant Theory supervised by Gian-Carlo Rota.[4] He worked as an instructor at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, with a joint appointment in mathematics and humanities, from 1972 until he joined the York University faculty in 1992.[2][3]

Awards and honours

In 2009, Whiteley won the Adrien Pouliot Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society for his contributions to mathematics education.[3] In August 2014, the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto hosted a workshop on rigidity theory and spatial reasoning, "inspired by the distinguished career of Professor Walter Whiteley".[5]

Selected publications
  • Roth, B.; Whiteley, W. (1981), "Tensegrity frameworks", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 265 (2): 419–446, doi:10.2307/1999743, JSTOR 1999743, MR 0610958.
  • Connelly, Robert; Whiteley, Walter (1996), "Second-order rigidity and prestress stability for tensegrity frameworks", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 9 (3): 453–491, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.145.3168, doi:10.1137/S0895480192229236, MR 1402190.
  • Whiteley, Walter (1996), "Some matroids from discrete applied geometry", Matroid theory (Seattle, WA, 1995), Contemporary Mathematics, 197, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. 171–311, doi:10.1090/conm/197/02540, MR 1411692.
  • Whiteley, Walter (1997), "Rigidity and scene analysis", Handbook of discrete and computational geometry, CRC Press Ser. Discrete Math. Appl., CRC, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 893–916, MR 1730205.
  • Eren, T.; Goldenberg, O.K.; Whiteley, W.; Yang, Y.R.; Morse, A.S.; Anderson, B.D.O.; Belhumeur, P.N. (2004), "Rigidity, computation, and randomization in network localization", Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE INFOCOM 2004), Vol. IV, doi:10.1109/infcom.2004.1354686.
  • Aspnes, J.; Eren, T.; Goldenberg, D.K.; Morse, A.S.; Whiteley, W.; Yang, Y.R.; Anderson, B.D.O.; Belhumeur, P.N. (2006), "A theory of network localization", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 5 (12): 1663–1678, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.138.2248, doi:10.1109/tmc.2006.174.
  • Connelly, Robert; Weiss, Asia Ivić; Whiteley, Walter, eds. (2014). Rigidity and Symmetry. New York: Springer. ISBN 9781493907809. OCLC 941174259.
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References
  1. Faculty, York University Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2015-11-21.
  2. Curriculum vitae: Walter John Whiteley (PDF), April 2001, retrieved 2015-11-21.
  3. 2009 Adrien Pouliot Award (PDF), Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-11-21.
  4. Walter Whiteley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Workshop on Making Models: Stimulating Research In Rigidity Theory And Spatial-Visual Reasoning, Held at the Fields Institute, August 5–9, 2014, retrieved 2015-11-21.
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