Born:     August 22, 1941,   Aiken, South Carolina

College:       MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1958-1962

                       SB in Mathematics, 1962

Fellowships: N.S.F. Fellowship, 1962-66, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1962

Graduate School: University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1966

                            MA in Mathematics, 1964

                            Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1966

Thesis: Wild Ramification of Cyclic Extensions of Local Fields, written under the direction of G.P. Hochschild and M. Rosenlicht.

Specialities: Algebraic System Theory, Linear Control Theory, Commutative Algebra, Actuarial Science.
 

Employment:

University of California, Teaching Assistant 9/64 - 1/65

Princeton University, Instructor 9/66 - 6/68

Stanford University, Assistant Professor 9/68 - 9/72

University of Oslo, Norway, Visiting Assistant Professor, 9/70 - 9/71

University of Padua, Italy, Visiting Professor 6/78 - 8/78

University of Notre Dame, Visiting Associate Professor 9/78 - 9/79

University of Genoa, Italy, Visiting Professor 7/85 - 8/85

The Ohio State University 

        Associate Professor 9/72-9/80

        Professor 9/80-present

        Director of Actuarial Studies 9/94-6/2005

        Vice Chair, Mathematics Department 10/95-9/2004