Brief Vitae
Degrees: B.A., University of Hong Kong, 1963.
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967.
Academic Positions
Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley (July, 2009--present).
Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley (2009--present).
Deputy Director (1995-97): Math.~Sci.~Research Institute, Berkeley (MSRI).
Professor (1976--present): University of California, Berkeley.
Associate Professor (1972-76): University of California, Berkeley.
Assistant Professor (1969-72): University of California, Berkeley.
Lecturer (1968-69): University of California, Berkeley.
Instructor (1967-68): University of Chicago.
Research Fellow (Summer, 1967): University of Illinois.
Honors
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.
American Mathematical Society Leroy P.~Steele Prize: 1982.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow: 1981-82.
Miller Research Professor: University of California, 1978-79.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow: 1972-74.
Selected Publications
- Lam, T. Y. and Leroy, A. and Ozturk, A. (2008). Wedderburn polynomials over division rings. II. In Noncommutative rings, group rings, diagram algebras and their applications Contemp. Math. 456 73-98 Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, RI. [MR] [GS?]
- Kodiyalam, Vijay and Lam, T. Y. and Swan, R. G. (2008). Determinantal ideals, Pfaffian ideals, and the principal minor theorem. In Noncommutative rings, group rings, diagram algebras and their applications Contemp. Math. 456 35-60 Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, RI. [MR] [GS?]
- Lam, T. Y. and Reyes, Manuel L. (2008). A prime ideal principle in commutative algebra. J. Algebra 319 No.7, 3006-3027. [MR] [GS?]
- Bass, Hyman and Lam, T. Y. and et al. (2007). Irving Kaplansky 1917--2006. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 54 No.11, 1477-1493. [MR] [GS?]
- Lam, T. Y. (2007). Exercises in modules and rings. Problem Books in Mathematics. Springer New York xviii+412. [MR] [GS?]
Algebra