Charles Waldo Rezk (born 26 January 1969) is an American mathematician, specializing in

algebraic topology Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariant (mathematics), invariants that classification theorem, classify topological spaces up t ...

category theory Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations that was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the middle of the 20th century in their foundational work on algebraic topology. Nowadays, cate ...

, and spectral algebraic geometry.

Education and career

Rezk matriculated at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1987 and graduated there in 1991 with B.A. and M.A. in mathematics. In 1996 he received his PhD from MIT with thesis ''Spaces of Algebra Structures and Cohomology of Operads'' and advisor

Michael J. Hopkins Michael Jerome Hopkins (born April 18, 1958) is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. Life He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1984 under the direction of Mark Mahowald, with thesis ''Stable Decompositio ...

. At

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

Rezk was a faculty member from 1996 to 2001. At the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2006 and an associate professor from 2006 to 2014 and is a full professor since 2014. He was at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

in the fall of 1999, the spring of 2000, and the spring of 2001. He held visiting positions at MIT in 2006 and at Berkeley's MSRI in 2014. Since 2015 he has been a member of the editorial board of ''

Compositio Mathematica ''Compositio Mathematica'' is a monthly peer-reviewed mathematics journal established by L.E.J. Brouwer in 1935. It is owned by the Foundation Compositio Mathematica, and since 2004 it has been published on behalf of the Foundation by the London M ...

''. Rezk was an invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

in Seoul in 2014.slides
/ref> He was elected a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in the class of 2015 (announced in late 2014).

Selected publications

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rezk, Charles 1969 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Pennsylvania alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Northwestern University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Topologists Category theorists