Ian F. Putnam

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.

Education

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).

Honours

Israel Halperin Prize in 1990. Aisenstadt Prize in 1993. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2013 (inaugural class).

Selected publications

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.