CURRICULUM VITAE
Kiyoshi Igusa
Personal data:
Born: November, 1949 in Kamakura, Japan
Immigrated to US on 9/29/56
Naturalized US citizen on 10/25/90
Married with two children.
Education:
University of Chicago 1968-1971
Princeton University 1971-1975
Ph.D. (from Princeton) in 1979.
Ph.D. Thesis: "The Wh3(¹) obstruction for pseudoisotopy"
Positions held:
Professor, Brandeis University, 1989-
Associate Professor, Brandeis University, 1981 - 1989
Assistant Professor, Brandeis University, 1975 - 1981
Sloan (postdoctoral) fellowship, 1981 - 1983
IBM (graduate) fellowship, 1974 - 1975
PhD Theses supervised:
1989 John Klein, “Higher Reidemeister Torsion for manifolds equipped with Morse functions”
1984 Crichton Ogle, “A map from cyclic homology into K-theory”
Significant Lectures:
1990 45 minute invited address at the International Congress of Mathematics in Kyoto, Japan: “Parametrized Morse Theory and its Applications”
1984 Séminaire Bourbaki (exposé 627) given by J. Cerf: “Suppression des singularites de codimension plus grande que 1 dans les familles de fonctions différentiable réelles [d’après Kiyoshi Igusa]”