Background
Carlsson, Gunnar Erik was born on August 22, 1952 in Solna, Sweden. Son of Sven Erik and Anna Marie (Westbeck) Carlsson. came to the United States, 1962.
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Gunnar Erik Carlsson
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Education
He graduated from Redwood High School (Larkspur, California) in 1969. He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1976, with a dissertation written under the supervision of R. J. Milgram.
Career
He is known for his work on Segal"s Burnside Ring conjecture, and for his work on applied algebraic topology, especially Topological Data Analysis. He was a Dickson Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (1976-1978) and Professor at the University of California, San Diego (1978-1986), Princeton University (1986-1991), and Stanford University (1991–present). He has been an Ordway Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota and held a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship 1984-1986.
He has delivered an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California (1986).
A plenary address at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society (1984). The Whittaker Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh (2011).
The Rademacher Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (2011). And an invited plenary address at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2012).
Achievements
Membership
Member American Mathematics Society.
Interests
Connections
Married Mary Catherine Box, September 7, 1980. Children: Erik, John, Christopher.
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Nationality
American