Background
Ravenel, Douglas Conner was born on February 17, 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Son of Bruce Walker and Beverly Ravenel.
mathematician university professor
Ravenel, Douglas Conner was born on February 17, 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Son of Bruce Walker and Beverly Ravenel.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Brandeis University in 1972 under the direction of Edgar H. Brown, Junior. with a thesis on exotic characteristic classes of spherical fibrations.
From 1971 to 1973 he was instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1974/75 he was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study. He became assistant professor at the Columbia University in 1973 and at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1976, where he became associate professor in 1978 and professor in 1981. From 1977 to 1979 he was Sloan Fellow.
Since 1988 he is professor at the University of Rochester.
He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, 1978, and is an editor of the New York Journal of Mathematics since 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In further work, Ravenel calculates the Morava-K theories of several spaces and proves important theorems in chromatic homotopy theory together with Hopkins. He was also one of the founders of elliptic cohomology.
In 2009, he solved together with Hill and Hopkins the Kervaire invariant 1 problem for large dimensions.
Ravenel has written two books, the first on the calculation of the stable homotopy groups of spheres and the second on the Ravenel conjectures, colloquially known among topologists respectively as the green and orange books (though the former is no longer green, but burgundy, in its current edition).
(Since the publication of its first edition, this book has...)
Member American Mathematics Society.
Married Michelle Louise Mendonca, March 20, 1983. Children: Christian, René, Heidi, Anna.