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CURRICULUM VITAE
Douglas C. Ravenel
Department of Mathematics
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-4415
FAX (585) 273-4655

January, 2025

Education:

B.A. with Highest Honors in Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1969.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brandeis University, 1972.

Employment:

Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1996-2005.
Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1988 to present (named Fayerweather Professor 1999).
Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington, 1981-1988.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington, 1978-1981.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington, 1976-1978.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, 1973-1976.
Member, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1974-1975.
Instructor of Mathematics, M.I.T., 1971-1973.

Publications:

Books

Publications, with links to book reviews, dvi files of selected papers, etc.

Sabbaticals:

Fall 2018, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Spring 2009, Harvard University and Instituto Supeior Tecnico, Lisbon.
Fall 2005, Harvard University.
Fall 2002, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Spring 2000, Johns Hopkins University.
Fall 1994, University of Paris XIII.
Fall 1989, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
1979-80, Cambridge University, University of Bonn, and University of Bern.
Fall 1978, Oxford University.
1974-1975, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Research Grants:

National Science Foundation Research Grants, 1972-2001 and 2004-2007 and 2009-2019.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship for Basic Research, 1977-1981.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), 1994.
U. S. Israeli Binational Science Foundation, 1994-97.

Articles and invited talks related to departmental leadership:

College Math on the rebound? Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 2002.
Rochester four years later: from crisis to opportunity, Notices of the AMS, 46 (1999): 861-863.
Whatever happened to Rochester? Two years later, Mathematics is getting accolades (by Allyn Jackson), Notices of the AMS, 44 (1997): 1463-1466.
American Mathematical Society Workshop for New Chairs (one of four leaders), New Orleans, January, 2001.
Board of Mathematical Sciences Chairs Colloquium, Washington DC, November 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002 (organizer)
Washington University, October, 1999.
American Mathematical Society Departmental Leadership meeting, Indiana University, August, 1999.
Ohio State University, March, 1999.
University of Toledo, February, 1999.
University of Washington, May, 1996.

University service:

College Faculty Council 1995-97 and 2014-.
College Faculty Council Steering Committee 1996-97 and 2015-17 (Chair 2016-17).
University Committee on Tenure and Privileges 2007-2010.
College Business Degree Committee 2007.
College Curriculum Committee 2005-2010.
Presidential Search Committee 2004.
Faculty Budget Committee 2003-2012. (Cochair 2006-2010).
Department Chair 1996-2005.
UR Faculty Senate 1998-2004 and 2007-2010.
Faculty Senate Executive Committee 1998-2003 (Chair 1999-2000, Co-Chair 2001-02) and 2007-2010.
Chair, Faculty Governance Committee 1999-2001.
Faculty Senate Webmaster 1998-99.
College Committee on Faculty Handbook 1998.
College Dean Search Committee 1996-97.

General professional service:

AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA-SIAM Data Committee, 2009-2011
US National Commission on Mathematics Instruction, 2005-2009
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, 2001-2004
American Mathematical Society Committee on the Profession, 2002-2005
Editor of the New York Journal of Mathematics 1994-2021.
Reviewer for roughly three NSF proposals per year.

Meetings organized:

Co-mentor (with Michael Hill) of Talbot workshop on Equivariant stable homotopy theory and the Kervaire invariant, April, 2016.
Hot topics workshop on the Kervaire invariant, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, October, 2010.
Elliptic Cohomology and Chromatic Chenomena & Higher Chromatic Phenomena

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

BMSA Chairs Colloquium, 2002.
AMS Workshop for New Chairs, New Orleans, January, 2001, and San Diego, January 2002.
Journees de theorie de l'homotopie, Luminy, January, 1997.
Fields Institute Homotopy Theory Year, Toronto, 1995-96.
International Conference on Homotopy Theory, Gargnano, Italy, June, 1995.
AMS Special Session in Homotopy Theory, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1995.
Algebraic Topology Conference in Honor of Samuel Gitler, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 1993.
International Conference on Algebraic Topology, Arcata, California, 1986.

Selected invited lectures:

International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, 1978.
Bourbaki Seminar, Paris, 1990.

Talks by me on the solution to the resolution of the Telescope Conjecture by Burklund, Hahn, Levy and Schlank.
- SLMath Hot Topics: Life after the Telescope Conjecture, December 9-13, 2024.
  "Why the telescope conjecture?" Slides
- MFO workshop of October 14-18, 2024 . "Why the telescope conjecture?" Slides Zoom recording
- eCHT Minicourse of December 5-14, 2023. "What is the telescope conjecture?" Slides and videos of 4 lectures
- Princeton algebraic topology seminar, October, 2023. Slides
The Transatlantic Transchromatic Homotopy Theory Conference II, August 2023. Slides
Homotopy theory in honor of Paul Goerss, Northwestern University, March 2023. Slides
Algebraic Topology, in memory of Hans-Joachim Baues, Bonn, October 2022. Slides
Rankin Lecture, University of Glasgow (Zoom), May 2022. Announcement and poster. Slides Video.
String cobordism at the prime 3.

The eightfold way: how to build the right model structure on orthogonal G-spectra.
- Electronic Computational Homotopy Theory Seminar version, October 2019.
- Trondheim version, A Jolly Pleasant Conference for Greenlees, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, July-August, 2019.

Model category structures for equivariant spectra, Equivariant and motivic homotopy theory, August, 2018. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Two talks in China, June 2018.
- Model categories and stable homotopy theory, International Workshop on Algebraic Topology, Shenzhen. Print friendly version.
- Model categories and spectra, Joint International Meeting of the CMS and AMS, Shanghai. Print friendly version.
The chromatic conjectures, Chromatic Homotopy Theory: Journey to the Frontier, May, 2018. Video link to conference talks.

Two equivariant approaches to the telescope conjecture, MIT topology seminar, November, 2017.

The C₂-equivariant analog of the subalgebra of A generated by Sq¹ and Sq², Homotopy theory: tools and applications, UIUC, July, 2017. Print friendly version. Video.

Model categories and spectra, University of Chicago, May, 2017.

The lost telescope of Z, Electronic Computational Homotopy Theory Seminar, March, 2017 and MIT topology seminar, November, 2017. Print friendly version.

The slice filtration revisited, AIM workshop, June 2016 and CMS Winter Meeting, December, 2016.

Talks on the solution to the Arf-Kervaire invariant problem
- 2015
  - Gitler Memorial Conference, Princeton University, March
  - Topology seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, April
  - Colloquium, Tulane University, April
  - Geometry and Topology Conference, Lehigh University, May
  - Topology Conference, Max Planck Insititut für Mathematik, Bonn, June
- 2014
  - Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture, University of Binghamton, April
- 2013
  - Conference in honor of Samuel Gitler, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico, September
- 2012
  - Abel Prize Conference in honor of John Milnor, IMA Minneapolis, February
  - BIRS workshop on equivariant stable homotopy theory, February
  - University of Kentucky, April
- 2011
  - George Kempf Lectures, Johns Hopkins University, March
  - University of Virginia, March
  - Namboodiri Lectures, University of Chicago, April
  - Workshop on the Kervaire invariant and stable homotopy theory, ICMS, Edinburgh, April
  - University of Waterloo, November
- 2010
  - Princeton University, February
  - Graduate Student Topology Conference, University of Michigan, April
  - University of Western Ontario, April
  - Cornell University Topology Festival, May
  - Bilkent and Middle East Technical Universities, Ankara, May
  - Gokova Geometry/Topology Conference, Turkey, June
  - Hot topics workshop, MSRI, Berkeley, October
- 2009
  - Instituto Superior Tècnico, Lisbon, May
  - Tokyo City University, November
  - Current Developments in Mathematics, Harvard University, November
  - University of Washington, November
Geometry and topology conference conference, Lehigh University, May 2015.
Gitler/Bendersky conference on algebraic topology, Princeton University, March 2015.
Homotopy Theory Conferences, Northwestern University, 2013, 1997, 1992, 1988, 1982, 1977 and 1974.
Conference in memory of Daniel Quillen, MIT, 2012.
Conference in honor of William Browder, Princeton University, 2012.
Conference in honor of Robert Stong, University of Virginia, 2007.
Complex cobordism in homotopy theory: its impact and prospects (``birthday conference''), Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
Four invited lectures, Wayne State University, 2007.
Canadian Mathematical Society Meeting, Halifax, June, 2004.
AMS Meeting, Rider University, April, 2004.
Geometry and Topology Conference, Lehigh University, June, 2003.
JAMI Conference on Recent Progress in Homotopy Theory, Johns Hopkins University, March 2000.
AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, Denton, Texas, May, 1999.
Barcelona Conferences on Algebraic Topology, 1990, 1994 and 1998.
J. F. Adams Memorial Lectures, Manchester, June, 1997.
Sheffield Homotopy Theory Mini-conference, May, 1997.
CRM Summer School on Homotopy Theory (series of 10 lectures), Barcelona, September, 1996
International Conference on Homotopy Theory, Gargnano, Italy, June, 1995.
Paris Conference on Algebraic Topology, 1994.
AMS Conference on periodicity and structured homology theories in homotopy theory, 1994.
Latin American Scool of Mathematics (5 lectures), Mexico City, August, 1993.
IMA Summer Graduate Program (10 lectures), Northwestern University, August, 1991.
Holiday Symposium (10 lectures), New Mexico State University, December, 1990.

Doctoral students:

David J. Pengelley (1980), New Mexico State University, retired
Stephen A. Mitchell (1981), University of Washington, deceased.
Austin C. Pearlman (1985), deceased.
Robert Thompson (1986), Hunter College, CUNY.
Younggi Choi (1992), Seoul National University, South Korea.
Binhua Mao (1994).
Andrew Salch, (2008), Wayne State University.
Don Larson (2013), Catholic University of America.
Mingcong Zeng (2018).
Yan Zou (2018).
Yexin Qu (2018).
Ugur Yigit (2019), Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey.
Yuxin Luo (2022), formerly a student of the late Fred Cohen.