Claude L. Schochet

 

Mathematics Department

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI 48202

313 577 3177

 

Educational Stats

Ph.D. in Mathematics

    • University of Chicago, May, 1969
    • Title of Thesis: Unstable Two-Stage Postnikov Systems
    • Thesis Advisor: J. Peter May

M.S.. in Mathematics

B.A. in Mathematics and Economics

I have been at Wayne State University since 1976. Before that I was at Indiana University for four years, after postdocs at Aarhus University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. You can find the gory details on my curriculum vita. For general mathematical information go to the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

or the University of Chicago Math Department. This last site is so well-organized and useful that I shall refer you to it for all other math links.

Teaching

"Teaching is our opportunity to pass on to our students an understanding of the ideas, nature and importance of mathematics; and just sometimes, a glimpse of its beauty. Also, teaching pays the mortgage." (Steve Hurder, from whom I also stole the page layout.)

This year I am running the What's New in ... seminar, and you are invited to attend frequently. .

Research

I started out my mathematical life as an algebraic topologist, and for the first few years worked diligently computing homotopy groups and bordism groups. For the latest in this field, you should check out Clarence Wilkerson's Hopf Topology Archives. In early 1973 I got hooked on the relationship between algebraic topology (and specifically K-theory) and functional analysis (especially C*-algebras and have been interdisciplinary ever since. You can sample the action in this field by checking out the K-Theory Preprint Archives where my recent preprints are to be found. Recently I’ve been thinking about the homotopy groups of the group of invertible elements of a Banach algebra.

 

The second edition of Moore, Schochet, Global Analysis on Foliated Spaces, is being published by Cambridge University Press and will appear some time in 2005.

Connecting

You can always reach me at claude@math.wayne.edu. Sometimes, people have reached me in my office (313) 577-3177  (where you can leave a message).