William Jaco
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| Born | July 14, 1940 Grafton, West Virginia, United States |
| Residence | Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States |
| Fields | Mathematics, Topology, and Geometry |
| Institutions | Oklahoma State University |
| Alma mater | B.A., Fairmont State College; M.A., Penn State; Ph.D (1968) University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Known for | JSJ decomposition |
| Notable awards | Grace B. Kerr Professor |
Dr. William "Bus" H. Jaco (b. July 14, 1940 in Grafton, West Virginia) is an American mathematician, who currently resides in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Jaco's contributions to mathematics have been many and varied. Best known among 3-manifold theorists for his major role in the Jaco-Shalen-Johannson decomposition JSJ decomposition theorem, he has also contributed across many other areas. With influential terms as Executive Officer of the American Mathematical Society, Head of Department at Oklahoma State University and extensive on-going service across local and national levels, he has played a significant role in the shape of the profession today. He also maintains an active research programme, focused on Triangulations, Normal Surfaces and Algorithms associated to these techniques. He currently researches and teaches at Oklahoma State University where he holds distinguished titles such as Regents Professor (2008)[1] and Grace B. Kerr Professor.
In 2005, Jaco traveled to Peking University in Beijing, China to teach a summer course in Topology. The class met six hours a week and had 70 students, including a host professor, Wang Shicheng.[2]
Awards and honors
To commemorate Jaco's birthday and his outstanding career as a mathematician, Oklahoma State University held a Topology Conference called Jacofest in June 2010[3] at which people from all over the world came to speak on the subject. This list includes professors from University of Southern California, Boston College, BYU, The University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, and many more.[4]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Education
- Bachelor of Arts at Fairmont State College
- Master of Arts at Penn State
- Ph.D in 1968 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications
- William Jaco Lectures on Three-Manifold Topology ISBN 0-8218-1693-4
- W. H. Jaco, P. B. Shalen Seifert Fibered Spaces in Three Manifolds: Memoirs Series No. 220 (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; v. 21, no. 220) ISBN 0-8218-2220-9
- William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, & Stephan Tillman "Z2 –Thurston Norm and Complexity of 3–Manifolds" [6]
- William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, & Stephan Tillman "Coverings and Minimal Triangulations of 3–Manifolds" [7]
- William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, & Stephan Tillman "Minimal triangulations for an infinite family of lens spaces" [8]
- William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, & Eric Sedgwick "Finding planar surfaces in knot- and link-manifolds" [9]
- William Jaco & J. Hyam Rubinstein "Layered-triangulations of 3-manifolds" [10]
- William Jaco & J. Hyam Rubinstein "0-efficient triangulations of three-manifolds" [11]
- William Jaco & Eric Sedgwick "Decision problems in the space of Dehn fillings" [12]
- William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, & David Letscher "Algorithms for essential surfaces in 3-manifolds" [13]
References
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External links
- Oklahoma State Bio of W. Jaco
- William Jaco at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Home page of W. Jaco
- 1940 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Topologists
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- Oklahoma State University faculty
- People from Grafton, West Virginia
- Fairmont State University alumni
- Pennsylvania State University alumni
- Educators from West Virginia
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- People from Stillwater, Oklahoma
