Richard G. Larson Curriculum Vitæ

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965
• S.M., University of Chicago, 1962
• A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1961

Employment:

• 2006-present Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
• 1977-2006 Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
• 1970-1977 Associate Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
• 1967-1970 Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
• 1965-1967 C. L. E. Moore Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Award:

Thesis Director of:

• B. I-peng Lin, "On homological properties of coalgebras," Ph.D, 1973.
• J. Riegsecker, "Categories of modules over pseudocompact rings," Ph.D., 1976.
• A.-L. Jensen, "Grothendieck rings and integral representation rings of Hopf algebra orders," Ph.D., 1981.

Off-campus Professional Service:

• Member, editorial board, Communications in Algebra, 1972-80.
• Organized special session on Hopf algebras at New York A.M.S. meeting, April 1973, with E. Taft.
• A.M.S. Committee to Monitor Problems in Communication, 1988-90.
• A.M.S. Committee on Electronic Exchange of Information, 1988-89.

University Service:

• Senate Committee on Student Discipline, 1970-72.
• Senate Committee on Academic Services, 1976-77.
• LAS Executive Committee, 1976-77.
• Graduate College Executive Committee, 1980-81.
• Campus Computer Allocation Committee, 1980-81.
• Senate Committee on Academic Services, 1982-84.
• Computer Policy Committee, 1985-94.
• Senate Subcommittee on Computer Services, 1985-86.
• LAS Educational Policy Committee, 1988-90.
• SCAS Subcommittee on Academic Computer Services, 1990-94.
• Campuswide Information Management Advisory Committee, 1991.
• Task Force on Information Management, 1993.
• University Senate, 1995-98.
• Senate Support Services Committee, 1995-97.
• UIC Phi Beta Kappa chapter vice-president, 1995-96.
• UIC Phi Beta Kappa chapter president, 1996-97.
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept of Math., Stat, and Comp. Sci., 2001-04.

Invited Talks:

• May 1970, Oberwolfach, Ring Theory Meeting.
• May 1975, Oberwolfach, Ring Theory Meeting.
• June 1978, First South-east Asian Conference on Mathematical Education lecture.
• December 1979, IEEE Software and Applications Conference.
• October 84, Finding Something In A Table -- Variations On A Theme, I.C.T.M. Annual Meeting, Normal, Ill.
• December 1985, Hopf algebras via symbolic algebra, Computers in Algebra Conf., Chicago, Ill.
• June 1988, Higher-order derivations and trees, 4th SIAM Conf. on Discrete Mathematics, San Francisco, Calif.
• January 1989, Hopf-algebraic structures of combinatorial objects and differential operators, Intern. Conf. on Hopf Algebras, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• January 1989, Interest Group on Rings of Differential Operators, Intern. Symposium in Ring Theory, Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat Gan, Israel.
• January 1989, Organized Problem Session: Applications of Hopf Algebras to Combinatorics, Intern. Conf. on Hopf Algebras, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• January 1991, Special Session on Hopf Algebras, Annual A.M.S. meeting, San Fransisco, California.
• December 1992, IEEE 31st Conference on Decision and Control, Tuscon, Arizona.
• May 1993, Special Session: Hopf algebras and Hopf algebra actions, A.M.S. meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• March 1995, Special Session: Quantum groups and Hopf algebras, A.M.S. meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
• October 1999, Hopf Algebras Workshop, MSRI, Berkeley, California.
• October 2004, Special Session: Hopf Algebras at the Crossroads of Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, A.M.S. meeting, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, Illinois.

Last updated September 8, 2006