Wilberd Leo Johan van der Kallen (born 15 January 1947 in
Nieuwer-Amstel
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) is a Dutch mathematician.
W. L. J. van der Kallen completed his undergraduate study of mathematics and physics at
Utrecht University
Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...
.
There he received his PhD in 1973 with thesis advisor
T. A. Springer and thesis ''Infinitesimally central extensions of Chevalley groups''. In 1969 van der Kallen became a teaching assistant in Utrecht University's Mathematics Department and has spent his career there, eventually becoming a tenured professor. His research deals with algebraic K-theory and the representation theory of algebraic groups, among other topics. He has frequently been a visiting professor at
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
in
Evanston, Illinois
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and at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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in
Mumbai
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.
[
He is the author or coauthor of over 60 research articles.][ In 1977 he published an analogue of a 1977 theorem of ]Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Су́слин, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He was a Trustee ...
and a generalization of a 1969 theorem of Hideya Matsumoto
Hideya Matsumoto(英也, 松本)Vol.39 No.1 P.46 Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sugaku1947/39/1/39_1_43/_pdf/-char/ja
is a Japanese mathematician who works on algebraic groups, who proved Matsu ...
. In 1978 van der Kallen was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki. His 1980 paper ''Homology stability for linear groups'' has over 200 citations. His 1977 paper ''Rational and generic cohomology'', written with 3 other mathematicians,
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20th-century Dutch mathematicians
21st-century Dutch mathematicians
Utrecht University alumni
Utrecht University faculty
1947 births
Living people