HomePage of Stephen D. Smith

  Stephen D. Smith     Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
                       University of Illinois at Chicago
		       smiths@math.uic.edu

  office (720 SEO) 312-996-2442 (dept 312-996-3041; fax 312-996-1491)

  home                 728 Wisconsin
                       Oak Park IL 60304
                       708-848-3133


  expected travel:
     Sept 7-23       UK: Cambridge (Thompson80) + Oxford
     Oct 11-13       Durham NC
     Oct 17-20       AMS-St.Louis
     Nov 22-Dec 9    Egypt

Research:

I am interested in finite groups, with connections to finite geometry, combinatorics, algebraic topology, and computer science. Click below for a brief curriculum vitae, or farther down for papers.

• Curriculum Vitae of Stephen D. Smith (click here to view CV)

• Lecture at symposium for Michael Aschbacher: Schock Prize, Stockholm, 3 Nov 2011 (click here for video)

• Poster for Spencer Lecture at Kansas State U, 17 April 2008 (click here to view pdf file)

Books:

An expository volume on "Subgroup complexes" has just appeared as vol. 179 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S.

An "outline" work with Aschbacher, Lyons, and Solomon "The classification of finite simple groups: groups of characteristic 2 type" is vol. 172 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S. (This book won the 2012 AMS Steele Prize for Exposition.)

A joint work with Dave Benson "Classifying spaces of sporadic groups" is vol. 147 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S.

A joint work with Michael Aschbacher "The classification of quasithin groups" is vols. 111 and 112 in Surveys and Monographs of the A.M.S. (This work completed the classification of the finite simple groups.)

Papers:

• S. Smith publications, 1971--present (bibtex file "smith.bib")