Calvin C. Moore

Calvin C. Moore ( born November 2, 1936 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with operator algebras and topological groups.

Moore graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and in 1960 received his doctorate at George W. Mackey at Harvard ( Extensions and Cohomology Theory of Locally Compact Groups). In 1961 he was Assistant Professor, 1966 Professor at Berkeley. From 1977 to 1980 he was the Director of The Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

With SS Chern and Isadore Singer in 1982, he was founder of the MSRI. 1964/65 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Fellow. 1971 to 1979 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Mathematical Society, whose fellow he is. From 1977 he was co-editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 1978/79 he was a Miller Research Professor at Berkeley.

He wrote a history of mathematics at Berkeley.

His doctoral include Roger Howe, Bruce Blackadar.

Writings

• With Claude Schochet Global Analysis on Foliated Spaces, MSRI Publications, Springer Verlag, 1988, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press 2006