CURRICULUM VITA OF HENRI GILLET 


Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.


EDUCATION

B.Sc.in Mathematics, Kings College, London, 1974.

Ph.D.in Mathematics, Harvard University, 1978. (Thesis Advisor: David Mumford).

POSITIONS

University of Illinois at Chicago: Interim Dean of the Graduate College, 2009-2010.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Head of Department, MSCS, 1996--2001.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Interim Head of Department, MSCS, 1994--1996.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Professor, MSCS, 1988--present.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Associate Professor, 1986--1988.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Assistant Professor, 1984--1986.

Princeton University: Assistant Professor, 1981--1984.

Princeton University: Instructor, 1978--1981.

VISITING APPOINTMENTS & MEMBERSHIPS

Fields Institute, Toronto, fall 2008

Tata Insitute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, November 15 – December 15, 2006
Special Year on Arakelov Theory and Shimura Varieties, Centre de RecercaMatemtica, Barcelona, Fall 2005.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Spring 1998.

I.H.E.S., Paris April 1988.

Institute for Advanced Study, Fall 1987.

I.H.E.S., Paris July 1986.

Univ. of Paris-Sud and I.H.E.S, Spring 1985.

University of Pennsylvania, 1983--1984.


AWARDS AND HONORS

Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar, fall 2008

A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Sept. 1986-Sept. 1989.

Hour speaker, May A.M.S. Meeting, Chicago, May 1989.

University Scholar, University of Illinois, 1989-92. .

45 minute address in the number theory section at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, Aug. 1990.

THESES SUPERVISED

Liquing Wang, "The Constructibility Theorem for Differential Modules", Ph.D., 2008

Fatih Unlu, “On Explicit Representations of the Grothendeick Fundamental Class”,  Ph.D. 2004.

Junda Hu, "Deformation to the normal cone in arithmetic geometry", Ph.D. 1999.

Mike Paluch, "Algebraic and Topological K-theory", Ph.D. 1991.

K. Ganesan, "Serre-Tate theory of ordinary K-3 surfaces", Ph.D. 1988.  

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Council of the American Mathematical Society, 2002-2005.
Editor of the American Journal of Mathematics  1994 to 1999. 
Editor of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics 2003 to 2007
Editor of the International Mathematics Research Notices, 1995 to 1998.