Walter Whiteley
{{Infobox academic
| name = Walter Whiteley
| title = Professor
| nationality = Canadian
| discipline = Mathematician
| sub_discipline = Geometry
| alma_mater = Queen's University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Gian-Carlo Rota
| workplaces = Champlain College Saint-Lambert
York University
| awards = Adrien Pouliot Award
}}
Walter John Whiteley is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.{{citation|url=http://mathstats.info.yorku.ca/people/faculty/|title=Faculty|publisher=York University Department of Mathematics and Statistics|accessdate=2015-11-21}}. He specializes in geometry and mathematics education, and is known for his expertise in structural rigidity and rigidity matroids.
Education and career
Whiteley graduated from Queen's University in 1966.{{citation|url=http://www.math.unm.edu/~vageli/papers/FLEX/whiteley.PDF|title=Curriculum vitae: Walter John Whiteley|date=April 2001|accessdate=2015-11-21}}.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dissertation titled Logic and Invariant Theory supervised by Gian-Carlo Rota.{{mathgenealogy|id=17996}}
He worked as an instructor at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, with a joint appointment in mathematics and humanities, from 1972 until he joined the York University faculty in 1992.
Awards and honours
In 2009, Whiteley won the Adrien Pouliot Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society for his contributions to mathematics education.{{citation|url=http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/citations/ap2009.pdf|title=2009 Adrien Pouliot Award|publisher=Canadian Mathematical Society|accessdate=2015-11-21}}.
In August 2014, the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto hosted a workshop on rigidity theory and spatial reasoning, "inspired by the distinguished career of Professor Walter Whiteley".{{citation|url=https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/14-15/making_models/|title=Workshop on Making Models: Stimulating Research In Rigidity Theory And Spatial-Visual Reasoning, Held at the Fields Institute|date=August 5–9, 2014|accessdate=2015-11-21}}.
Selected publications
- {{citation
| last1 = Roth | first1 = B.
| last2 = Whiteley | first2 = W.
| doi = 10.2307/1999743
| issue = 2
| journal = Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
| mr = 610958
| pages = 419–446
| title = Tensegrity frameworks
| volume = 265
| year = 1981| jstor = 1999743
| doi-access = free
}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Connelly | first1 = Robert | author1-link = Robert Connelly
| last2 = Whiteley | first2 = Walter
| doi = 10.1137/S0895480192229236
| issue = 3
| journal = SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
| mr = 1402190
| pages = 453–491
| title = Second-order rigidity and prestress stability for tensegrity frameworks
| volume = 9
| year = 1996| citeseerx = 10.1.1.145.3168}}.
- {{citation
| last = Whiteley | first = Walter
| contribution = Some matroids from discrete applied geometry
| doi = 10.1090/conm/197/02540
| mr = 1411692
| pages = 171–311
| publisher = American Mathematical Society | location = Providence, RI
| series = Contemporary Mathematics
| title = Matroid theory (Seattle, WA, 1995)
| volume = 197
| year = 1996| doi-access = free
| isbn = 978-0-8218-0508-4
}}.
- {{citation
| last = Whiteley | first = Walter
| contribution = Rigidity and scene analysis
| mr = 1730205
| pages = 893–916
| publisher = CRC, Boca Raton, FL
| series = CRC Press Ser. Discrete Math. Appl.
| title = Handbook of discrete and computational geometry
| year = 1997}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Eren | first1 = T.
| last2 = Goldenberg | first2 = O.K.
| last3 = Whiteley | first3 = W.
| last4 = Yang | first4 = Y.R.
| last5 = Morse | first5 = A.S.
| last6 = Anderson | first6 = B.D.O.
| last7 = Belhumeur | first7 = P.N.
| contribution = Rigidity, computation, and randomization in network localization
| doi = 10.1109/infcom.2004.1354686
| title = Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE INFOCOM 2004), Vol. IV
| year = 2004| volume = 4
| pages = 2673–2684
| isbn = 0-7803-8355-9
| s2cid = 5674760
}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Aspnes | first1 = J. | author1-link = James Aspnes
| last2 = Eren | first2 = T.
| last3 = Goldenberg | first3 = D.K.
| last4 = Morse | first4 = A.S.
| last5 = Whiteley | first5 = W.
| last6 = Yang | first6 = Y.R.
| last7 = Anderson | first7 = B.D.O.
| last8 = Belhumeur | first8 = P.N.
| doi = 10.1109/tmc.2006.174
| issue = 12
| journal = IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
| pages = 1663–1678
| title = A theory of network localization
| volume = 5
| year = 2006| citeseerx = 10.1.1.138.2248
| s2cid = 2911118 }}.
- {{cite book | editor1-last=Connelly | editor1-first=Robert | editor2-last=Weiss | editor2-first=Asia Ivić | editor3-last=Whiteley | editor3-first=Walter | title=Rigidity and Symmetry | year=2014 | location= New York | publisher = Springer | isbn=9781493907809 | oclc=941174259}}
References
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External links
- [https://whiteley.mathstats.yorku.ca/ Home page]
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Category:Canadian mathematicians
Category:Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni