Washington Mio
Washington Mio | |
|---|---|
| Title | Roger W. Roberts Professor in Mathematics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Thesis | Non-Linear Equivalent Representations of Quaternionic 2-Groups (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sylvain Edward Cappell |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Geometric topology |
| Institutions | Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1984-87) University of Pennsylvania (1989-90) Florida State University (1990-present) |
Washington Mio is a mathematician specializing in geometric topology and shape analysis. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and served as the chair of Florida State University's department of mathematics.
Career
Mio earned his Bachelor's degree in mathematics from State University of Campinas, Brazil in 1978. Two years later he finished his M.S. in mathematics from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada.[1] Mio completed his Ph.D at New York University in 1984 with Sylvain Cappell as his advisor.[2] His dissertation was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
In 1996 Mio, along with John Bryant, Steven Ferry, and Shmuel Weinberger, disproved James Cannon's influential Resolution Conjecture using surgery theory.[4]
In 2004 Mio, together with Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, and Shantanu H. Joshi, introduced a widely-used method for analyzing and automatically classifying shapes based on geodesic paths.[5]
Awards
In 2015, Mio was inducted as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for "contributions to topology as well as to the mathematics, statistics, and applications of shape analysis."[6]
Florida State University awarded Mio the title of Distinguished Research Professor in 2023[7] and made him the inaugural Roger W. Roberts Professor of Mathematics in 2024.[8]
Selected publications
- Bryant, J.; Ferry, S.; Mio, W.; Weinberger, S. (1996). "Topology of Homology Manifolds". Annals of Mathematics. 143 (3): 435–467. doi:10.2307/2118532. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 2118532.
- Mio, Washington (2000). Cappell, Sylvain (ed.). Surveys on Surgery Theory: Volume 1. Papers Dedicated to C. T. C. Wall. (AM-145). Princeton University Press. pp. 323–44. ISBN 978-0-691-04938-0. JSTOR j.ctt7zv8q1.18.
References
- ^ Mio, Washington. "Short CV".
- ^ "Washington Mio - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ Mio, Washington (September 1989). "Nonlinearly Equivalent Representations of Quaternionic 2-Groups" (PDF). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 315 (1). American Mathematical Society: 305–321. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0937879-0.
- ^ Bryant, J.; Ferry, S.; Mio, W.; Weinberger, S. (1996). "Topology of Homology Manifolds". Annals of Mathematics. 143 (3): 435–467. doi:10.2307/2118532. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 2118532. Archived from the original on 2024-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
- ^ Klassen, E.; Srivastava, A.; Mio, M.; Joshi, S.H. (March 2004). "Analysis of planar shapes using geodesic paths on shape spaces". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 26 (3): 372–383. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1262333. ISSN 1939-3539. PMID 15376883.
- ^ "2015 Class of the Fellows of the AMS" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 62 (3): 285–287. March 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 February 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Faculty Honors & Awards". awards.faculty.fsu.edu. Archived from the original on 12 May 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Department of Mathematics Newsletter" (PDF). March 2024. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-04-26. Retrieved 2025-07-20.