Mailing Address:
215 Carnegie Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1150
FAX: (315) 443-1475

Office: 304B Carnegie Hall
Phone:(315) 443-1491
Email: danderso@syr.edu

PhD

from Yale University, 1966

Research

Professor Anderson is interested in the interplay between topology and algebraic K-theory. He has used this point of view to investigate questions involving polyhedra, CW complexes, manifolds, transformation groups, and pseudoisotopies. He is currently interested in the relationship between controlled topology and lower algebraic K- and L-theories.

Biography

Douglas Anderson earned a BA from Wesleyan 1961, and MA 1963 and Ph.D. 1966 from Yale, under the direction of Wu-Chung Hsiang. He was an assistant professor at Northwestern 1966-1969 and research associate at Michigan State 1969-1970, before joining SU as an associate professor in 1970. Doug was promoted to professor in 1977, was a visiting fellow at Princeton 1974-1975, and was a visiting professor at McMaster 1977-1978, Odense 1981-1982, and Notre Dame 1990-1992.

He lists his research interests in topology as: manifolds, with the emphasis on torsion invariants; transformation groups; spaces controlled over another space; and algebraic K-theory. Doug has published 34 papers, with about half jointly authored and nine with H. J. Munkholm, including Foundations of Boundedly Controlled Topology, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1323, published in 1988. Generally his later papers have been longer and more involved. He has given numerous conference and colloquium lectures at Yale, the University of Chicago, the Cornell Topology Festival, Oberwohlfach, Aarhus, and many other venues.

Doug had near continuous NSF grant support from 1967 to 1992, NSF support for the Upstate New York Topology Seminar 1993-1996, NATO support 1984-1986, and support for two years for the Sonia Kovalevsky Festival from the Association for Women in Mathematics. He has had two Ph.D. students, Jenny Baglivo (1976) and Jill Wiesner (2001), and he is a member of AMS and Phi Beta Kappa. Doug was a member of the executive committee 1975-1977, 1982-1984 and 1988-1990, graduate committee 1992-1994 and 6 ad hoc committees for promotion and/or tenure (chair of 3 of them). He was a member of the chairperson search committee 1984 and was colloquium chair 1985-1989. He was the main organizer for the Upstate New York Topology Seminar from 1974 to 1997. He was advisor for honors students in mathematics 1982-1990, and was coordinator of the honors courses in mathematics 1989-1994.

Since 1994 he has been department chair, with his current term ending 2005. He will have served as chair longer than anyone since at least 1943, except for Kibbey's 20 years ending in 1971. Doug was a member of the College tenure committee 1985-1988 (chair 1986-1987), dean search committee 1993-1994 and faculty council 1999-2001 (chair 2000-2001). He was a member of the All University Honors Program Council 1989-1990 and 2001-2002, and chair of the Search Committee for the All University Honors Program Director 1989. He has been a member of the University Senate 1995-present, was a member of the senate Committee on Academic Affairs 1995-2000 (chair 1999-2000), and has been a member of the senate Budget Committee since 2000. He was a member of the Board of Graduate Studies 1982-1984, of its subcommittee on Teaching Assistants 1982-1984, and of the Gateway Project Core Faculty 1986-1988.
--Phil Church 9/5/02