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Thomas Goodwillie
Professor of Mathematics
- CONTACT INFO
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Office: 304 Kassar House
Phone: (401) 863-2590
Fax: (401) 863-9013
Email: tomg<at>math.brown.edu
Mailing Address:
Mathematics Department
Box 1917
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
- COURSES
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Fall 2009
Math 2710D: Stable homotopy theory
I Hour (Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-11:50)
Kassar 205
A pdf of suggested
problems to be updated from time to time.
Some arguments about fibrations that
I omitted in class.
Spring 2010
Office Hours:
Tuesday 9:30-10:30
Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Math1410: Combinatorial topology
K Hour (Tu-Th 2:30-3:50)
Barus-Holley 157
Math 2110: Introduction to manifolds
I Hour (Tu-Th 10:30-11:50)
Kassar 105
e-handouts:
smooth
maps
manifolds
in R^n
paracompactness and partitions of 1
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Topology of Manifolds
Abstract Homotopy Theory
Algebraic K-theory
- BACKGROUND
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Education:
Ph.D., Princeton, 1982.
A.B., Harvard, 1976.
- RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Multiple disjunction for spaces of Poincare
embeddings. Journal of Topology 1 (2008) 761-803 (with
John R. Klein)
Calculus III, Taylor series. Geometry
and Topology 7 (2003) 645-711 arXiv
A Haefliger type description of the embedding calculus tower
Topology 42 (2003) 509-524 (with John Klein and Michael Weiss)
Spaces of
smooth embeddings, disjunction, and surgery
in Annals of Math. Studies 149, Surveys on surgery theory
(vol. 2), 2000, ed. A. Ranicki, and J. Rosenberg, 221-283
(with John Klein and Michael Weiss)
A Cohomological bound for the h-topology American
J. of Math. 123 (2001), 425-443. (with Stephen
Lichtenbaum)
Embeddings from the point of view of immersion theory II Geometry and Topology 3 (1999), 103--118 (with Michael Weiss) click here
A remark on the homology of cosimplicial spaces J. Pure Appl. Algebra 127 (1998), no. 2, 167--175.
On the algebraic K-theory of simply connected spaces Duke Math. J. 84 (1996), no. 3, 541--563 (with Marcel Bökstedt, Gunnar Carlsson, Ralph Cohen, Wu-chung Hsiang, and Ib Madsen)
Calculus II, Analytic functors K-Theory 5 (1991/92), no. 4, 295--332.
The differential calculus of homotopy functors Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Kyoto, 1990), 621--630, Math. Soc. Japan, Tokyo, 1991.
Calculus I, The first derivative of pseudoisotopy theory K-Theory 4 (1990), no. 1, 1--27.
A multiple disjunction lemma for smooth concordance embeddings Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 86 (1990), no. 431, 317 pp.
The free loop space and the algebraic K-theory of spaces K-Theory 1 (1987), no. 1, 53--82. (Gunnar Carlsson, Ralph Cohen, and Wu-chung Hsiang)
Relative algebraic K-theory and cyclic homology Ann. of Math. (2) 124 (1986), no. 2, 347--402.
Correction to: "On the general linear group and Hochschild homology" [Ann. of Math. (2) {121} (1985), no. 2, 383--407; MR 86i:18013] Ann. of Math. (2) 124 (1986), no. 3, 627--628.
Cyclic homology, derivations, and the free loopspace Topology 24 (1985), no. 2, 187--215.
On the general linear group and Hochschild homology
Ann. of Math. (2) 121 (1985), no. 2, 383--407.
- WORKS IN PROGRESS
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(with John Klein) Multiple disjunction for spaces of embeddings
(with Brian Munson) A stable range description of the space of link maps
- WISH I'D THOUGHT OF THAT
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Charles Rezk found a much simpler proof
of a key result (Lemma 1.9) in my paper Calculus III.