R. James Milgram
Richard James Milgram is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology. He is the son of mathematician Arthur Milgram.
Biography
Milgram graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in 1961. He received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Minnesota with thesis The homology ring of symmetric products of Moore spaces under the supervision of Alfred Aeppli. Milgram taught from 1970 as a professor at Stanford University, where he is now emeritus. He was a visiting professor at the University of Lille, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, at the University of Göttingen, and at the University of Minnesota, as well as the ETH Zurich, Edinburgh, Montreal, Barcelona, the MSRI, and the University of New Mexico.In 1974, Milgram was an Invited Speaker with talk The structure of the oriented topological and piecewise linear bordism rings at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver. He was an editor for the Pacific Journal of Mathematics from 1973 to 1983, for the Duke Mathematical Journal from 1976 to 1984, and for the A.M.S. Contemporary Mathematics series. In August 1999 Stanford University held a mathematical conference in his honor.
His doctoral students include Gunnar Carlsson.