Charles Weibel

Charles Alexander Weibel ( born October 28, 1950 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American mathematician who deals with algebraic K-theory, algebraic geometry and Homo Logical algebra.

Weibel studied physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan with bachelor's degrees in both subjects in 1972 and at the University of Chicago with a master's degree in 1973 and his doctorate in 1977 with Richard Swan ( Homotopy in Algebraic K- Theory). From 1970 to 1976 he was Operations Research Analyst at Standard Oil of Indiana and in 1977/78 at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1978 he became assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and an assistant professor and in 1989 professor at Rutgers University.

He was involved with Vladimir Wojewodski, Markus rust and other evidence on the ( motivic ) Bloch- Kato conjecture ( 2009). It is a generalization of the Milnor conjecture in algebraic K- theory, which proved Wojewodski in the 1990s.

In 1992 he was a visiting professor in Paris and 1993 in Strasbourg. From 1983 he was editor of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

Writings

• With Eric Friedlander An overview over algebraic K -theory, in Algebraic K -theory and its applications, World Scientific 1999, pp. 1-119 (1997 Trieste Lecture Notes )
• The K -book, an introduction to algebraic K -theory
• With Carlo Mazza, Vladimir Voevodsky motivic Lectures on Cohomology, Clay Monographs in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society 2006
• An introduction to homological algebra, Cambridge University Press 1994
• The proof of the Bloch- Kato conjecture, Trieste Lectures 2007, ICTP Lecture Notes Series 23 (2008), 277-305