Education
Cohen received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Michigan and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 from Brandeis University under Edgar Henry Brown with thesis On Odd Primary Stable Homotopy Theory.
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Ralph Cohen
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Career
At Stanford University, he became in 1982 an assistant professor, was the chair of the mathematics department from 1992 to 1995, and is now the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor for Mathematics there. From 1999 to 2009 he was the director of the Mathematics Research Center in Stanford. He was a visiting professor at Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris Nord, the University of Lille, and the University of Copenhagen.
In 1995 Cohen, John Doctorate. South. Jones, and Graeme Segal introduced an approach for understanding the homotopy theory of Floer homology.
In 1982 Cohen was a Sloan Fellow. In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.
His doctoral students include Ulrike Tillmann and Ernesto Lupercio.
