Nationality American Fields Mathematics Name Skip Garibaldi | ||
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Alma mater Purdue University,
University of California, San Diego Education University of California, San Diego, Purdue University Books Cohomological Invariants in Galois, Cohomological Invariants: Exception, Optimization in Microeconomics | ||
Doctoral advisor Adrian Wadsworth Institutions Emory University, UCLA Academic advisor Adrian Wadsworth | ||
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Skip Garibaldi is an American mathematician doing research on algebraic groups and especially exceptional groups.
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- Biography
- Scientific contributions
- References
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Biography
Garibaldi dropped out of high school to attend Purdue University, where he earned B.S.'s in mathematics and in computer science. He then obtained a PhD in mathematics from University of California, San Diego in 1998. His doctoral thesis was on triality and algebraic groups. After holding positions at ETH Zurich and UCLA, he joined the faculty at Emory University in 2002, and was eventually promoted to Winship Distinguished Research Professor. In 2013 he became associate director of IPAM at UCLA.
In 2011 he received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America.
Scientific contributions
His most-cited work is the book "Cohomological invariants in Galois cohomology" written with Alexander Merkurjev and Jean-Pierre Serre, which gives the foundations of the theory of cohomological invariants of algebraic groups. His long work "Cohomological invariants: exceptional groups and Spin groups" built on this theme.
He received press coverage for his paper "There is no Theory of Everything inside E8" with Jacques Distler proposing a disproof of Garrett Lisi's "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything".
He is also known for his less-technical articles on the lottery which led to TV appearances and policy changes in Florida and Georgia. He contributed to a story in Slate magazine by Chris Wilson about arranging stars on the US flag that was reported on CBS News Sunday Morning.