Education
Earle received his bachelor"s degree from Swarthmore College in 1957, his master"s degree from Harvard University in 1958, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1962 under Lars Ahlfors with thesis Teichmüller Spaces of Groups of the Second Kind.
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With James Eells A fibre bundle description of Teichmüller theory, J. Diff. Geom., vol. 3, 1969, pp. 19–43.
with A. Schatz Teichmüller theory for surfaces with boundary, J. Diff.
Geom, vol. 4, 1970, pp. 169–185with Eells The diffeomorphism group of a compact Riemann surface, Bulletin AMS, 73, 1967, 557-559, OnlineFamilies of Riemann surfaces and Jacobi varieties, Annals of Mathematics, vol. 107, 1978, 255–286. with Adrien Douady Conformally natural extension of homeomorphisms of the circle, Acta Mathematica, 157, 1986, 23–48. with Irwin Kra, S. L. Krushkal´ Holomorphic motions and Teichmüller spaces, Transactions AMS 343, 1994, pp.
927–948. with Kra On sections of some holomorphic families of closed Riemann surfaces, Acta Mathematica 137, 1976, 49-79On holomorphic families of pointed Riemann Surfaces, Bulletin AMS, 79, 1973, pp. 163–166The Teichmüller space of an arbitrary Fuchsian group. Bulletin AMS, 70, 1964, 669-701with Frederick P. Gardiner Geometric isomorphisms between infinite dimensional Teichmüller spaces, Transactions AMS, 348, 1996, pp.
1163–1190.
Clifford Earle
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Career
From 1963 to 1965 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1965 he became an assistant professor and in 1969 a full professor at Cornell University. From 1976 to 1979 he was the chair of the mathematics department at Cornell.
Earle"s research deals with Teichmüller spaces (ie moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces) and the related theories of quasiconformal mappings (following Ahlfors and Bers) and Kleinian groups.
With Eells in 1967 he mathematically described, for any compact Riemann surface X, the homotopy types of spaces of diffeomorphisms of X and thus a new characterization of the Teichmüller space of X. In 1969 Earle and Eells extended the 1967 result to non-orientable surfaces, and in 1970 Earle and Schatz extended the 1967 result to surfaces with boundary. Earle was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1974/75.
In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has been married since 1960 and has two children.
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Other Work
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With James Eells A fibre bundle description of Teichmüller theory, J. Diff. Geom., vol. 3, 1969, pp. 19–43. with A. Schatz Teichmüller theory for surfaces with boundary, J. Diff.
Geom, vol. 4, 1970, pp. 169–185with Eells The diffeomorphism group of a compact Riemann surface, Bulletin AMS, 73, 1967, 557-559, OnlineFamilies of Riemann surfaces and Jacobi varieties, Annals of Mathematics, vol. 107, 1978, 255–286. with Adrien Douady Conformally natural extension of homeomorphisms of the circle, Acta Mathematica, 157, 1986, 23–48. with Irwin Kra, S. L. Krushkal´ Holomorphic motions and Teichmüller spaces, Transactions AMS 343, 1994, pp.
927–948. with Kra On sections of some holomorphic families of closed Riemann surfaces, Acta Mathematica 137, 1976, 49-79On holomorphic families of pointed Riemann Surfaces, Bulletin AMS, 79, 1973, pp. 163–166The Teichmüller space of an arbitrary Fuchsian group. Bulletin AMS, 70, 1964, 669-701with Frederick P. Gardiner Geometric isomorphisms between infinite dimensional Teichmüller spaces, Transactions AMS, 348, 1996, pp.
1163–1190.
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