Ronald J. Stern

Short description: American mathematician

Ronald John Stern (born 20 January 1947) is a mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and gauge theory.[1] He is emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine.[2]

Stern was the first in his family to receive a college education and earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.[3] He then earned his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the joint supervision of Robert Duncan Edwards (de) and Robert F. Brown.[4]

Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1989, Stern was a professor at the University of Utah and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Hawaii.[3]

He was an Invited Speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Berlin.[5]

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

## Contents

* 1 Selected papers
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Selected papers

These are his most cited papers (according to Google Scholar), they are all joint work with Ron Fintushel:[7]

* "Knots, links, and 4-manifolds", Inventiones mathematicae 134 (2), pp. 363–400 (1998)
* "Rational blowdowns of smooth 4-manifolds", Journal of Differential Geometry 46 (2), pp. 181–235 (1997)
* "Instanton homology of Seifert fibred homology three spheres", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 61 (3), pp. 109–137 (1990)
* "Immersed spheres in 4-manifolds and the immersed Thom conjecture", Turkish Journal of Mathematics 19 (2), pp. 145–157 (1995)
* "Pseudofree orbifolds", Annals of Mathematics, pp. 335–364 (1985)
* "Constructing lens spaces by surgery on knots", Mathematische Zeitschrift 175 (1), pp. 33–51 (1980)
* "The blowup formula for Donaldson invariants", Annals of Mathematics 143 (3), pp. 529–546 (1996)

## See also

* Fintushel–Stern knot

## References

1. ↑ "Ronald J. Stern". Faculty.sites.uci.edu. http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/rstern/.
2. ↑ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". Faculty.uci.edu. 2007-05-14. http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2168.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Addison, Lisa; Canalis, John (13 June 1998). "UCI Names Dean of Physical Sciences". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/13/local/me-59543.
4. ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ronald Stern". Genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de. http://genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de/id.php?id=12408.
5. ↑ "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". Mathunion.org. https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=Stern.
6. ↑ "Fellows of the AMS by Institution". Ams.org. 2015-04-13. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list-institution.
7. ↑ "Ronald J. Stern - Google Scholar Citations". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HUEZguIAAAAJ.

## External links

* "Publications, Ronald J. Stern". https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/rstern/publications/. (publications with online links)

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