Haynes Miller

Haynes Robert Miller ( born 1948 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American mathematician who is engaged in algebraic topology.

Miller studied at Harvard and received his doctorate in 1974 at John Coleman Moore at Princeton University with the work Some Algebraic Aspects of the Adams - Novikov Spectral Sequence. After that, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard and at Northwestern University, from 1977. At the University of Washington and from 1984 professor at the University of Notre Dame Since 1986 he is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1992 to 1993 he was chairman of the committee there of Pure Mathematics, from 2004 Head of Undergraduate Mathematics Committee and from 2005 MacVicar Faculty Fellow.

Miller proved in 1984 the generalized Sullivan conjecture, regardless of Jean Lannes and Gunnar Carlsson.

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (The Sullivan conjecture and homotopical representation theory ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• The Sullivan conjecture on maps from classifying spaces. In: Annals of Mathematics. Vol 120, No. 1, 1984, ISSN 0003- 486x, pp. 39-87.