American mathematician
Danny Matthew Cornelius Calegari is a mathematician and, as of 2023[update] , a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago . His research interests include geometry , dynamical systems , low-dimensional topology , and geometric group theory .
Education and career
In 1994, Calegari received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Melbourne with honors. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley under the joint supervision of Andrew Casson and William Thurston ; his dissertation concerned foliations of three-dimensional manifolds .[ 1]
From 2000–2002 he was Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University , after which he joined the California Institute of Technology faculty; he became Merkin Professor in 2007. He was a University Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 2011–2012, and has been a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago since 2012.[ 2]
Calegari is also an author of short fiction, published in Quadrant , Southerly , and Overland . His story A Green Light was a winner of a 1992 The Age Short Story Award .[ 3]
Awards
Calegari was one of the recipients of the 2009 Clay Research Award for his solution to the Marden Tameness Conjecture and the Ahlfors Measure Conjecture .[ 4] In 2011 he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award ,[ 5] and in 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .[ 6] In 2012 he delivered the Namboodiri Lectures[ 7] at the University of Chicago, and in 2013 he delivered the Blumenthal Lectures[ 8] at Tel Aviv University. In 2022 he gave an invited lecture[ 9] at the ICM
and in 2024 he gave the Floer Lectures[ 10] in Bochum and the Roever Lecture[ 11] at Washington University in St. Louis.
Selected works
Calegari, Danny (2007). Foliations and the geometry of 3-manifolds . Oxford Mathematical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press . pp. xiv+363 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-857008-0 . MR 2327361 .
Calegari, Danny (2009). scl (stable commutator length) . MSJ Memoirs. Vol. 20. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan. pp. xii+209 pp. ISBN 978-4-931469-53-2 . MR 2527432 .
Calegari, Danny (1999). "
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-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds". Geometry & Topology . 3 : 137–153. arXiv :math/9808064 . doi :10.2140/gt.1999.3.137 . MR 1695533 . S2CID 8716835 .
Calegari, Danny; Dunfield, Nathan (2003). "Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle". Inventiones Mathematicae . 152 (1): 149–204. arXiv :math/0203192 . Bibcode :2003InMat.152..149D . doi :10.1007/s00222-002-0271-6 . MR 1965363 . S2CID 15149654 .
Calegari, Danny (2006). "Promoting essential laminations". Inventiones Mathematicae . 166 (3): 583–643. arXiv :math/0210148 . Bibcode :2006InMat.166..583C . doi :10.1007/s00222-006-0004-3 . MR 2257392 . S2CID 13985835 .
Calegari, Danny; Gabai, David (2006). "Shrinkwrapping and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds". Journal of the American Mathematical Society . 19 (2): 385–446. arXiv :math/0407161 . doi :10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00513-8 . MR 2188131 . S2CID 1053364 .
Calegari, Danny (2006). "Universal circles for quasigeodesic flows" . Geometry & Topology . 10 (4): 2271–2298. arXiv :math/0406040 . doi :10.2140/gt.2006.10.2271 . S2CID 5604620 .
Calegari, Danny (2008). "What is stable commutator length?" (PDF) . Notices of the American Mathematical Society . 55 (9): 1100–1101. MR 2451345 .
Personal life
Mathematician Frank Calegari is Danny Calegari's brother.[ 12]
References
External links
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