Washington Mio
Washington Mio | |
|---|---|
| Title | Roger W. Roberts Professor in Mathematics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Thesis | Non-Linear Equivalent Representations of Quaternionic 2-Groups (1984) |
| Sylvain Edward Cappell | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
Sub-discipline | Geometric topology |
| Institutions | Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1984-87) University of Pennsylvania (1989-90) Florida State University (1990-present) |
Washington Mio is a mathematician specializing in geometric topology and shape analysis. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and served as the chair of Florida State University's mathematics department.
Career
[edit]Mio earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from State University of Campinas, Brazil in 1978. Two years later he finished his M.S. in mathematics from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada.[1] Mio completed his Ph.D. at New York University in 1984 with Sylvain Cappell as his advisor.[2] His dissertation was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
In 1996 Mio, along with John Bryant, Steven Ferry, and Shmuel Weinberger, disproved James Cannon's influential Resolution Conjecture using surgery theory.[4]
In 2004 Mio, together with Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, and Shantanu H. Joshi, introduced a widely used method for analyzing and automatically classifying shapes based on geodesic paths.[5]
Awards
[edit]In 2015, Mio was inducted as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to topology as well as to the mathematics, statistics, and applications of shape analysis."[6]
Florida State University awarded Mio the title of Distinguished Research Professor in 2023[7] and made him the inaugural Roger W. Roberts Professor of Mathematics in 2024.[8]
Selected publications
[edit]- Bryant, J.; Ferry, S.; Mio, W.; Weinberger, S. (1996). "Topology of Homology Manifolds". Annals of Mathematics. 143 (3): 435–467. doi:10.2307/2118532. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 2118532.
- Mio, Washington (2000). Cappell, Sylvain (ed.). Surveys on Surgery Theory: Volume 1. Papers Dedicated to C. T. C. Wall. (AM-145). Princeton University Press. pp. 323–44. ISBN 978-0-691-04938-0. JSTOR j.ctt7zv8q1.18.
References
[edit]- ^ Mio, Washington. "Short CV".
- ^ "Washington Mio - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ Mio, Washington (September 1989). "Nonlinearly Equivalent Representations of Quaternionic 2-Groups" (PDF). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 315 (1). American Mathematical Society: 305–321. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0937879-0.
- ^ Bryant, J.; Ferry, S.; Mio, W.; Weinberger, S. (1996). "Topology of Homology Manifolds". Annals of Mathematics. 143 (3): 435–467. doi:10.2307/2118532. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 2118532. Archived from the original on 2024-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
- ^ Klassen, E.; Srivastava, A.; Mio, M.; Joshi, S.H. (March 2004). "Analysis of planar shapes using geodesic paths on shape spaces". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 26 (3): 372–383. Bibcode:2004ITPAM..26..372K. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1262333. ISSN 1939-3539. PMID 15376883.
- ^ "2015 Class of the Fellows of the AMS" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 62 (3): 285–287. March 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 February 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Faculty Honors & Awards". awards.faculty.fsu.edu. Archived from the original on 12 May 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Department of Mathematics Newsletter" (PDF). March 2024. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-04-26. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
