Craig Huneke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Craig Huneke

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1951

Place of Birth: Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Craig Huneke

  • Craig Lee Huneke (born August 27, 1951) is an American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra.
  • He is a professor at the University of Virginia. Huneke graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and in 1978 earned a Ph.D.
  • from the Yale University under Nathan Jacobson (Determinantal ideal and questions related to factoriality).
  • As a post-doctoral fellow, he was at the University of Michigan.
  • In 1979 he became an assistant professor and was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Bonn (1980).
  • In 1981 he became an assistant professor at Purdue University, where in 1984 he became an associate Professor and became a professor in 1987.
  • From 1994 to 1995 he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and in 1999 was at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn (as a Fulbright Scholar).
  • In 1999, he was Henry J.
  • Bischoff professor at the University of Kansas.
  • In 2002 he was at MSRI.
  • Since 2012 he has been Marvin Rosenblum professor at the University of Virginia. With Melvin Hochster and others, he developed the theory of tight closure, a device in ring theory that is used to study rings containing a field of characteristic p in which Frobenius endomorphism figures prominently.
  • He also studies linkage theory, Rees algebras, homological theory of modules over Noetherian rings, local cohomology, symbolic powers of ideals, Cohen-Macaulay rings, Gorenstein rings and Hilbert-Kunz functions. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990 in Kyoto (Absolute Integral Closure and Big Cohen-Macaulay Algebras).
  • He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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