Tonny Springer - Curriculum vitae#

In memoriam note by Jan R. Strooker

Personal data:

• Study at University of Leiden (Netherlands), 1945-1951.
• Doctorate in mathematics Leiden, 1951.
• Sojourn Université de Nancy (France), 1951-1952.
• Position at University of Leiden, 1952-1955.
• Since 1955 at University of Utrecht, full professor 1959-1991, emeritus in 1991.
• Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1964.

Visiting positions (one month or longer):

• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, 1961-1962, 1969, 1983.
• University of Göttingen, 1963.
• Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1983.
• University of California, Los Angeles, 1965-1966.
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1968, 1980.
• Université de Paris VII, 1971.
• University of Warwick, 1973.
• University of Notre Dame, 1978.
• Australian National University, Canberra, 1981, 1989, 1991, 1997.
• Université de Paris VI, 1984, 1987.
• Università di Roma II (Tor Vergata), 1986.
• Universität Basel, 1993.
• University of Sydney (Australlia), 1995, 1998, 2001.
• Erwin-Schroedinger-Institut f¨ur Theoretische Physik, Vienna, 2000.
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007.
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkely (California), 2008.

Research in algebra and the theory of linear algebraic groups (recent interests: symmetric varieties and their compactifications).