Bill Casselman

William Allen Casselman (born November 27, 1941) is an American Canadian mathematician who works in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He is closely connected to the Langlands program and has been involved in posting all of the work of Robert Langlands on the internet.

Career Casselman did his undergraduate work at Harvard College where his advisor was Raoul Bott and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1966 where his advisor was Goro Shimura. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1974, 1983, and 2001. He emigrated to Canada in 1971 and is a professor emeritus in mathematics at the University of British Columbia. and has been the graphics editor of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society since January, 2001.

Awards In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications