Prof. Dr. William Crawley-Boevey

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAssociative rings and algebras,Algebraic geometry
KeywordsPreprojective algebras, Noncommutative algebra, Tame algebras, Representations of quivers

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBielefeld
InstitutionUniversität Bielefeld
InstituteFakultät für Mathematik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard SagererFakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard SagererUniversität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2016

Programme(s)

2015Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Nominator's project description

The mathematician William Crawley-Boevey is looked upon as a pioneer in the field of representation theory and algebras. Being a theoretical researcher with a penchant for particularly thorny questions he has made important contributions to solving core mathematical challenges like Horn's problem, the Deligne-Simpson problem and Kac-Moody Lie algebras. He has developed seminal concepts in the theory of tame algebras, which govern representation theory to this day, and broken new paths in investigating the connections between representation theory and geometry. Together with his current work on vector bundles and the analysis of Riemann surfaces, this is the topic that still captures his imagination.