Aderemi Kuku
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Born: March 20, 1941)
Birthplace: Nigeria
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thesis: Ph.D. (1971) On the Whitehead group of p-adic integral
group-rings of finite p-groups, University of Ibadan (Nigeria);
Advisor: Hyman Bass.
International Center
of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Research Interests: K-theory
Aderemi Kuku holds a B.Sc. (Special-honours) in Mathematics from the University of London (1965), and from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria he earned both a M.Sc. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1971), though it appears that Hyman Bass at Columbia University was his advisor. He was Lecturer and Professor of Mathematics at Ibadan from 1968. He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics from 1983-1986, and as Dean of the Postgraduate School from 1986-1990. In 1986 Dr. Aderemi Kuku became the second president of the African Mathematical Union (AMU) he held that position until 1995. In 1987-88 he also served as Chairman of the Committee of Deans of Postgraduate Schools in Nigerian Universities. Professor Kuku has held visiting positions at several universities in the United States, Canada, and Germany" (Science in Africa: Career Strategies for Graduate Studies, AAAS, Washington, 1993, p.41). A.O.Kuku presented the paper "Capacity-building and human resources for accelerated development of science and technology in Africa" (19-22). Today Dr. Kuku is mathematics coordinator at the Miramare International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. e-mail: kuku@ictp.trieste.it
RESEARCH
I have a list of 75 invited lectures given by Professor Kuku outside of Nigeria through 1997. Dr. Kuku's primary research interests are in Algebraic K-Theory. His initial work contributed to the understanding of LF and NF Functors, and Whitehead Groups. Moreover, in collaboration with A. Dress of Bielefield, Germany, he formulated an equivariant Higher Algebraic K-Theory.
Books/Monographs
6. Edited: (with H. Bass and C. Pedrini) Agebraic K-Theory and its Applications, Proceedings of the Workshop and Symposium, Trieste, Italy. World Scientific Publishers (1998).
5. Topics in Algebraic K-Theory. Lecture Notes Series, National Mathematical Center. Abuja, Nigeria (1997)
4. Basic Computative Algebra, Lecture Notes Series, National Mathematical Center. Abuja, Nigeria (1994)
3. Edited: (with C. Weibel) Proceedings of Research Symposium on $K$-Theory and its Applications. Held at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, August 10--15, 1987. $K$-Theory {2} (1989), no. 5. D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, 1989. pp. i--ii and 557--673.
2. Axiomatic Theory of Induced Representation of Finite Groups. Les Cours du CIMPA. Nice, France (1986).
1. Abstract Algebra, Ibadan University Press (1980- reprinted 1992).
Papers
Aderemi Kuku has published papers in K-Theory and Category Theory. Mathematics Reviews lists:
16. Gerdes, Paulus Lusona: Récréations géométriques d'Afrique , (French) [Lusona: geometrical recreations of Africa] Dual French-English text. With a preface by Aderemi Kuku. ditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 1997. 128 pp. ISBN: 2-7384-5168-3 00A08 (01A07)
15. Kuku, Aderemi O. Higher $K$-theory of modules over EI-categories, Afrika Mat. (3) 6 (1996), 15--28. 19D99
14. Kuku, Aderemi O. Some recent developments in the $K$-theory of group rings, and orders in algebras, Proceedings of the UMA Symposium (Porto-Novo, 1993). Afrika Mat. (3) 2 (1993), 67--77.
13. Kuku, Aderemi O. Some finiteness results in the higher $K$-theory of orders and group-rings, Singapore topology conference (Singapore, 1985). Topology Appl. 25 (1987), no. 2, 185--191.
12. Kuku, Aderemi O. $K\sb n,\;SK\sb n$ of integral group-rings and orders, Applications of algebraic $K$-theory to algebraic geometry and number theory, Part I, II (Boulder, Colo., 1983), 333--338, Contemp. Math., 55, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1986.
11. Kuku, Aderemi O. Equivariant $K$-theory and the cohomology of profinite groups, Algebraic $K$-theory, number theory, geometry and analysis (Bielefeld, 1982), 235--244, Lecture Notes in Math., 1046, Springer, Berlin-New York, 1984.
10. Kuku, Aderemi O. $K$-theory of group-rings of finite groups over maximal orders in division algebras, J. Algebra 91 (1984), no. 1, 18--31.
9. Dress, Andreas W. M.; Kuku, Aderemi O. A convenient setting for equivariant higher algebraic $K$-theory, Algebraic $K$-theory , Part I (Oberwolfach, 1980), pp. 59--68, Lecture Notes in Math., 966, Springer, Berlin-New York, 1982.
8. Kuku, Aderemi O. Higher algebraic $K$-theory of group-rings and orders in algebras over number fields, Comm. Algebra 10 (1982), no. 8, 805--816.
7. Dress, Andreas W. M.; Kuku, Aderemi O. The Cartan map for equivariant higher algebraic $K$-groups, Comm. Algebra 9 (1981), no. 7, 727--746.
6. Kuku, Aderemi O. $SG\sb{n}$ of orders and group-rings, Math. Z. 165 (1979), no. 3, 291--295.
5. Kuku, A. O. $SK\sb{n}$ of orders and $G\sb{n}$ of finite rings, Algebraic $K$-theory (Proc. Conf., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill., 1976), pp. 60--68. Lecture Notes in Math., 551, Springer, Berlin, 1976.
4. Kuku, A. O. Sets, relations and fundamental algebraic structures, Abacus 7/8/9 (1970), no. 1, 179--191.
3. Kuku, A. O. Some finiteness theorems in the $K$-theory of orders in $p$-adic algebras, J. London Math. Soc. (2) 13 (1976), no. 1, 122--128.
2. Kuku, A. O. Whitehead group of orders in $p$-adic semi-simple algebras, J. Algebra 25 (1973), 415--418.
1. Kuku, Aderemi O. Some algebraic $K$-theoretic applications of the ${\rm LF}$ and ${\rm NF}$ functors, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1973), 363--365.
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