Michael E. Taylor

Michael Eugene Taylor (born 1946) is an American mathematician, working in

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. Taylor obtained his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1967, and completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinz Otto Cordes at the University of California, Berkeley (''Hypoelliptic Differential Equations''). He held a professorship at the

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

and is now the William R. Kenan Professor of Mathematics at the

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. In 1986 he was awarded the

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. He is a member of the

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. In 1990 he was

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

in Kyoto (''Microlocal analysis in spectral and scattering theory and index theory''). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is married to mathematician

Jane M. Hawkins Jane Margaret Hawkins is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Homepage
20th-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 1946 births Living people 21st-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub