HomePage of Stephen D. Smith

  Stephen D. Smith     Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, UIC
		       smiths@math.uic.edu

  office (720 SEO) 312-996-2442 (dept 312-996-3041; fax 312-996-1491)


  expected travel:
     2-4  May     New York City
    16-18 May     Houston
    23-26 May     Caltech, Pasadena CA
     6-8  June    LSU, Baton Rouge LA
    24-28 June    Judy's NAAHP meeting (Chicago downtown Marriott)
     5-12 Jan 09  Praeger conference, U. W. Australia, Perth
          Feb/Mar Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
     8-16 June09  Oliver-Solomon conference, Isle of Skye, UK

Research:

I am interested in finite groups, with connections to finite geometry, combinatorics, algebraic topology, and computer science. Click below for a brief curriculum vitae, or farther down for papers.

• Curriculum Vitae of Stephen D. Smith (click here to view CV)

• Poster for Spencer Lecture at Kansas State U, 17 April 2008 (click here to view pdf file)

• Written version of keynote talk at LMS Midlands meeting, U. Birmingham, Wednesday 18 May 2005 (click here to view pdf; or use ps or dvi form)

Recently appeared:

The joint work with Aschbacher "The classification of quasithin groups", which in particular completes the classification of the finite simple groups, has appeared as vols. 111-112 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S.

Jesper Grodal and Stephen D. Smith, Propagating sharp group homology decompositions: has now appeared in Advances in Math. 200(2006), 535-538.

The joint work with Dave Benson "Classifying spaces of sporadic groups" has appeared as vol. 147 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S.

Papers---recent preprints:

• In early stages of preparation (with Michael Aschbacher, Richard Lyons, and Ron Solomon): An "outline" of the classification of the finite simple groups; this will concentrate on the treatment of groups of characteristic 2 type, to complement Gorenstein's 1983 volume describing the treatment of groups of noncharacteristic 2 type. In due course a draft should be posted...

---older papers:

• S. Smith publications, 1971--present (bibtex file "smith.bib")