Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthdate: July 11, 1943
Citizenship: USA
EDUCATION
BA, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1965
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1969
Thesis advisor: Shoshichi Kobayashi
Thesis title: Some geometric applications of exteriorly orthogonal quadratic forms
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1969-1975
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1975-1981
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1981-2016
Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1999-2004.
PhD students: Chih-chy Fwu (1978), Thomas Schulte (1985), Benjamin Lorica (1992), Robert Ream (2014).