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Ian F. Putnam

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Ian F. Putnam
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
AwardsIsrael Halperin Prize (1990)
Aisenstadt Prize (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsDynamical systems theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Victoria
Thesis The C*-algebras Associated with Denjoy Homeomorphisms  (1985)
Marc Rieffel
Websiteweb.uvic.ca/~ifputnam/

Ian Fraser Putnam is a mathematician whose research focus on the intersection between dynamical systems and algebra, including C*-algebras and K-theory. He is a professor at the University of Victoria.[1][2]

Education

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He obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, with Marc Aristide Rieffel as advisor (thesis The C*-algebras Associated with Denjoy Homeomorphisms).[3]

Honours

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Selected publications

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  • GIORDANO, Thierry; PUTNAM, Ian F.; SKAU, Christian F. "Topological orbit equivalence and C*-crossed products". 1995.
  • ANDERSON, Jared E.; PUTNAM, Ian F. "Topological invariants for substitution tilings and their associated-algebras". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, v. 18, n. 3, p. 509–537, 1998.
  • HERMAN, Richard H.; PUTNAM, Ian F.; SKAU, Christian F. "Ordered Bratteli diagrams, dimension groups and topological dynamics". International Journal of Mathematics, v. 3, n. 06, p. 827–864, 1992.
  • Putnam, Ian F. (2018). Cantor Minimal Systems. American Mathematical Soc. ISBN 978-1-4704-4115-9.

References

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  1. ^ "Ian Putnam". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
  2. ^ "Ian Putnam: Research". UVic.ca. 2011-12-29. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
  3. ^ Ian F. Putnam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "The Israel Halperin Prize". Mathematics. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
  5. ^ "André Aisenstadt Prize". Site officiel du Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM). 2025-10-14. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
  6. ^ "Find Members". The Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
  7. ^ AMS website, "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society" (Wayback Machine archived version)
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