Education
Reichstein received his PhD degree in 1988 from Harvard University under the supervision of Michael Artin.
Reichstein received his PhD degree in 1988 from Harvard University under the supervision of Michael Artin.
He is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studies mainly algebra, algebraic geometry and algebraic groups. He introduced (with J Buhler) the concept of essential dimension.
Parts of his thesis entitled "The Behavior of Stability under Equivariant Maps" were published in the journal Inventiones Mathematicae. As of 2011, he is on the editorial board of the mathematics journal Transformation groups.
American Mathematical Society.