Steven Hurder Explained

Steven Hurder
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Field:	Mathematics
Doctoral Advisor:	Franz W. Kamber
Thesis Title:	Dual Homotopy Invariants of G-Foliations
Thesis Year:	1980
Workplaces:	University of Illinois Chicago

Steven Edmond Hurder is an American mathematician specializing in foliation theory, differential topology, smooth ergodic theory, rigidity of group actions and spectral and index theory of operators.^[1] Hurder presently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Chicago.^[1] Hurder was named as an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.^[2]

Education

Hurder received his PhD in 1980 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His advisor was Franz W. Kamber, and the title of his dissertation was Dual Homotopy Invariants of G-Foliations.

Selected publications

• Hurder, Steven (1981). Dual homotopy invariants of G-foliations, Topology, 20(4):365–387.^[3]
• Hurder, Steven; Katok, Anatoly (1990). Differentiability, rigidity and Godbillon-Vey classes for Anosov flows, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. no. 72, 5–61.^[4]
• Clark, Alex; Hurder, Steven (2013). Homogeneous matchbox manifolds, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 365, no. 6, 3151–3191.^[5]
• Hurder, Steven (1992). Rigidity for Anosov actions of higher rank lattices, Ann. of Math. (2) 135, no. 2, 361–410.^[6]
• Hurder, S.; Katok, A (1987). Ergodic theory and Weil measures for foliations, Ann. of Math. (2) 126, no. 2, 221–275.^[7]
• Douglas, Ronald G.; Kaminker, Jerome (1991). Cyclic cocycles, renormalization and eta-invariants, Invent. Math. 103 (1991), no. 1, 101—179.^[8]

External links

• Steven Hurder's homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steven Hurder. Staff profiles. University of Illinois Chicago Dept. of Math., Stat., & Comp. Sci.. 20 May 2024.
2. https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2013 List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
3. Reviews of "Dual homotopy invariants of G-foliations": Thomas E. Duchamp, ; D. B. Gauld,
4. Reviews of "Differentiability, rigidity and Godbillon-Vey classes for Anosov flows": D. Savin, ; Takashi Tsuboi,
5. Reviews of "Homogeneous matchbox manifolds": Iztok Banič, ; P. G. Walczak,
6. Reviews of "Rigidity for Anosov actions of higher rank lattices": J. Chrastina, ; T. N. Venkataramana,
7. Reviews of "Ergodic theory and Weil measures for foliations": John Cantwell, ; L. Conlon,
8. Reviews of "Cyclic cocycles, renormalization and eta-invariants": S. Bajzaev, ; John Roe,