21 Facts About Guido Mislin

Guido Mislin is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.

Guido Mislin is associated with Ohio State University as a guest at Mathematics Department.

Guido Mislin has conducted research in the field of cohomology of groups and algebraic K-Theory of group rings.

Guido Mislin has published over 90 research articles and several books including Localization of Nilpotent Groups and Spaces and Proper Group Actions and the Baum-Connes Conjecture.

Guido Mislin completed his undergraduate studies and diploma in Mathematics in 1964 and received his Ph.

Guido Mislin then moved to US and completed his post-doctoral studies from Cornell University and University of California, Berkeley.

Guido Mislin was promoted to Professor of Mathematics in 1979.

Guido Mislin headed the Department of Mathematics from 1998 till 2002.

Guido Mislin retired in 2006 and was gifted with Guido's Book of Conjectures, which is a collection of short notes written by 91 different authors.

Guido Mislin is associated with ETH Zurich as a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.

Guido Mislin specializes in algebraic topology, and has conducted research focusing especially on questions regarding general localization theory.

Guido Mislin has worked on cohomology of groups and algebraic K-Theory of group rings.

Guido Mislin studied the cohomology of classifying spaces of complex Lie groups and related discrete groups.

Guido Mislin's work proved that the Generalized Isomorphism Conjecture is equivalent to a Finite Subgroup Conjecture, generalizing earlier results due to Mark Feshbach and John Milnor, without using Becker-Gottlieb transfer.

Guido Mislin presented a theorem regarding constructing torsion classes in systemic manner, by using Chern classes of canonical representation.

Guido Mislin discussed the results and proved certain properties regarding the Chern classes of representations of cyclic groups.

Guido Mislin focused on Bass conjecture and conducted a study to prove that the Bost Conjecture on the L1-assembly map for discrete groups implies the Bass Conjecture.

Guido Mislin reformulated the weak Bass Conjecture as a comparison of ordinary and L2-Lefschetz numbers.

Guido Mislin studied and extended the work conducted by several authors on theory of topological localization.

Guido Mislin presented new results to the theory which were then applied to other studies.

Guido Mislin presented a periodicity theorem and proved the various properties of homotopy groups of K-theory localization.