6 August 2013

George A. Elliott affiliate professor

Appointment

The Dean has appointed George A. Elliott affiliate professor in operator algebra from August 1st, 2013, at The Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

George ElliottGeorge Elliott holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, and before that, and aside from several honorary positions all over the world, he has for 30 years held a position at the Department of Mathematics, UCPH.

Elliott initiated and has given name to the succesful and ambitious classification program that seeks to classify all simple (and non-simple) separable amenable C*-algebras by K-theoretical invariants.