Biography:Walter Whiteley
Walter Whiteley | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Title | Professor |
| Awards | Adrien Pouliot Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Gian-Carlo Rota |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematician |
| Sub-discipline | Geometry |
| Institutions | Champlain College Saint-Lambert York University |
Walter John Whiteley is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.[1] He specializes in geometry and mathematics education, and is known for his expertise in structural rigidity and rigidity matroids.
Education and career
Whiteley graduated from Queen's University in 1966.[2][3] He earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dissertation titled Logic and Invariant Theory supervised by Gian-Carlo Rota.[4] He worked as an instructor at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, with a joint appointment in mathematics and humanities, from 1972 until he joined the York University faculty in 1992.[2][3]
Awards and honours
In 2009, Whiteley won the Adrien Pouliot Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society for his contributions to mathematics education.[3] In August 2014, the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto hosted a workshop on rigidity theory and spatial reasoning, "inspired by the distinguished career of Professor Walter Whiteley".[5]
Selected publications
- Roth, B.; Whiteley, W. (1981), "Tensegrity frameworks", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 265 (2): 419–446, doi:10.2307/1999743.
- "Second-order rigidity and prestress stability for tensegrity frameworks", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 9 (3): 453–491, 1996, doi:10.1137/S0895480192229236.
- Whiteley, Walter (1996), "Some matroids from discrete applied geometry", Matroid theory (Seattle, WA, 1995), Contemporary Mathematics, 197, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. 171–311, doi:10.1090/conm/197/02540.
- Whiteley, Walter (1997), "Rigidity and scene analysis", Handbook of discrete and computational geometry, CRC Press Ser. Discrete Math. Appl., CRC, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 893–916.
- Eren, T.; Goldenberg, O.K.; Whiteley, W.; Yang, Y.R.; Morse, A.S.; Anderson, B.D.O.; Belhumeur, P.N. (2004), "Rigidity, computation, and randomization in network localization", Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE INFOCOM 2004), Vol. IV, doi:10.1109/infcom.2004.1354686.
- "A theory of network localization", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 5 (12): 1663–1678, 2006, doi:10.1109/tmc.2006.174.
- Connelly, Robert; Weiss, Asia Ivić; Whiteley, Walter, eds (2014). Rigidity and Symmetry. New York: Springer. ISBN 9781493907809. OCLC 941174259.
References
- ↑ Faculty, York University Department of Mathematics and Statistics, http://mathstats.info.yorku.ca/people/faculty/, retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Curriculum vitae: Walter John Whiteley, April 2001, http://www.math.unm.edu/~vageli/papers/FLEX/whiteley.PDF, retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 2009 Adrien Pouliot Award, Canadian Mathematical Society, http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/citations/ap2009.pdf, retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ↑ Walter Whiteley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Workshop on Making Models: Stimulating Research In Rigidity Theory And Spatial-Visual Reasoning, Held at the Fields Institute, August 5–9, 2014, https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/14-15/making_models/, retrieved 2015-11-21.
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