Arunas Rudvalis

Arunas Rudvalis ( born June 8, 1945 in Bavaria ) is an American mathematician who deals with finite groups and their representations, finite geometries and coding theory.

After completing his bachelor's degree at Harvey Mudd College in 1965, he was an engineer in nuclear engineering division of General Dynamics. Rudvalis made ​​in 1967 for his Masters degree at Dartmouth College, where he received his doctorate at Ernst Snapper 1969 ( Geometric Permutations Representations of Finite Symplectic, orthogonal, and unitary groups) and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics. 1970 to 1972 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and in 1972 Assistant Professor and in 1975 Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. According to him, a sporadic group is named, which he previously said. It was designed by John Horton Conway and David Wales