Bruce Williams

1. Area of research

Automorphisms of topological and smooth manifolds, manifold structure on fibrations, Reidemeister torsion for smooth bundles, applications of higher algebraic K-theory to geometric topology, Riemann-Roch type theorems in geometric topology

2. Keywords

• Fixed point theory for fiber bundles
• equivariant fixed point theory
• connections between cyclotomic trace
• periodic point theory

3. Current PhD students

• Allegra Reiber

4. Former PhD’s

• George Kennedy, National Security Agency
• Tomasz Zukowski, U. of Warsaw(Poland)
• Nancy Cardim, U. Federal Fluminense(Brazil)
• Padmini Kamath, motherhood
• Damjan Kobal, U. Ljubljana(Solvenia)
• Vesta Coufal,Gonzaga University, Washington State
• Stacy Hoehn, Vanderbilt(NSF postdoc)
• Gun Sunyeekhan, Chulalongkorn University(Thailand)

5. Postdocs mentored

• Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn. State, Altoona
• Kate Ponto, U. of Kentucky