Ronald J. Stern

Ronald John Stern (born 20 January 1947) is a mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and gauge theory.^[1] He is emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine.^[2]

Stern was the first in his family to receive a college education and earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.^[3] He then earned his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the joint supervision of Robert Duncan Edwards (de) and Robert F. Brown.^[4]

Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1989, Stern was a professor at the University of Utah and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Hawaii.^[3]

He was an Invited Speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians, in Berlin.^[5]

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6]

These are his most cited papers (according to Google Scholar), they are all joint work with Ron Fintushel:^[7]

• "Knots, links, and 4-manifolds", Inventiones mathematicae 134 (2), pp. 363–400 (1998)
• "Rational blowdowns of smooth 4-manifolds", Journal of Differential Geometry 46 (2), pp. 181–235 (1997)
• "Instanton homology of Seifert fibred homology three spheres", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 61 (3), pp. 109–137 (1990)
• "Immersed spheres in 4-manifolds and the immersed Thom conjecture", Turkish Journal of Mathematics 19 (2), pp. 145–157 (1995)
• "Pseudofree orbifolds", Annals of Mathematics, pp. 335–364 (1985)
• "Constructing lens spaces by surgery on knots", Mathematische Zeitschrift 175 (1), pp. 33–51 (1980)
• "The blowup formula for Donaldson invariants", Annals of Mathematics 143 (3), pp. 529–546 (1996)

• Fintushel–Stern knot

• "Publications, Ronald J. Stern". University of California, Irvine. (publications with online links)