Home Page - Donald S. Passman
Donald
S. Passman is the Richard Brauer Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
His research interests include ring theory, group
theory, group rings
and enveloping algebras of Lie algebras.
Vita
Publication
List
Abstracts
and PDF files
Mathematical Genealogy
Algebra Research Wiki Page
Address:
Mathematics
Department
University
of Wisconsin
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison,
Wisconsin 53706
Office: Room 607 Van Vleck Hall
Phone: 608. 263-7901
Fax: 608. 263-8891
Email:
passman@math.wisc.edu
News:
- Daughter: Barbara Passman married
Thomas
Brownsword on September 7, 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Grandson: Samuel Judd
Brownsword. Born August 30, 1994 to Barbara and Tom
Brownsword.
- Semiprimitivity problem for group
algebras of locally finite groups: solved January
1995.
- Named "Richard Brauer Professor of
Mathematics" July 1, 1995.
- Radical of group algebras of locally
finite groups: determined February 1996.
- Son: Jonathan Passman married
Pamela
Siegel on April 27, 1996 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Granddaughter: Rebecca Jane
Brownsword. Born July 9, 1997 to Barbara and Tom
Brownsword.
- Received Underkofler Excellence in
Teaching Award October 1998
- Grandson: Abraham Siegel
Passman. Born January 27, 1999 to Pam and Jon
Passman.
- Received Award for Distinguished
University Teaching of Mathematics from the Wisconsin section
of the Mathematical Association of America, April
1999.
- Received Deborah and Franklin
Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished
University Teaching of Mathematics from the
Mathematical Association of America, January
2000.
- Grandson: Jordan Siegel
Passman. Born October 28, 2000 to Pam and Jon
Passman.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman named Madison Middle School Teacher of the Year, March
2003.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman named "A
Distinguished Teacher of Teachers", U.W. School of Education, April
2003.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman received "NBC15 Crystal Apple Award", May 2003.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman retired from teaching, June 2003.
- "A Course in Ring Theory"
republished by AMS Chelsea, 2004.
- Granddaughter: Eve Siegel
Passman. Born February 22, 2004 to Pam and Jon
Passman.
- "Groups, Rings and Algebras" Conference held in
Madison, June 10-12, 2005.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman
elected
to Madison school board, Seat 6, April 1, 2008.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman
reelected
to Madison school board, Seat 6, April 5, 2011.
Three more years. Lucky me.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman elected vice-president of the
Madison school board.
- Marty and Don officially retired as of May 31, 2011.
Now Emeritus Professors
of Mathematics.
- "The Algebraic Structure of Group Rings"
republished by Dover, 2011.
- "Permutation Groups"
republished by Dover, 2012.
- Comments by Marty and by Don in the
Van Vleck News.
- Job Interview 1968:
comments and
document.
- "Infinite Crossed Products"
republished by Dover, 2013.
- Member of the inaugural class of
Fellows of the
American Mathematical Society.
- Grandson: Sam Brownsword graduated from UW-Madison, May 14, 2016.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman a member of the board of GRUMPS (Grandparents United for Madison Public Schools).
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman received David Austin Memorial Award from Progressive Dane, December 14, 2014
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman received Social Justice Visionary Award from the Social Justice Center, May 19, 2016.
- Granddaughter: Rebecca Brownsword graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder,
May 9, 2019.
- Grandson: Jordan Passman a student at the University of Miami, 2019-.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman received 50 year recognition
from the League of Women Voters
, October 9, 2020.
- Granddaughter: Rebecca Brownsword a student
at the Columbia University School of Social Work, she is a legacy.
- Wife: Marjorie
Passman a member of the advisory board of the Madison Foundation for Schools
- "Lectures on Linear Algebra"
(banner) published by World Scientific, 2022.
- Grandson: Abe Passman graduated from Tulane University, May 21, 2022.
- Granddaughter: Eve Passman a student at Indiana University, 2022-.
Marj's Award
(2016)
with T. J. Mertz
At the
Newton Apple Tree
on the U.W. Campus
(2020)
Samuel
(2019)
age 25
Rebecca
(2018)
age 21
Abraham
(2016)
age 17
Jordan
(2019)
age 18
Eve
(2019)
age 16
"Groups, Rings and Algebras" Conference:
Announcement
Official Web Site
Program
Conference Photos
Eric Behr's Photos
Chia-Hsin Liu's Photos
Pamela Passman's Photos
Don's After-Dinner Speech
"Groups, Rings, Group Rings and Hopf Algebras" Conference:
Preliminary Information
Schedule
Group Photo
Birthday Cake Photos 1
Birthday Cake Photos 2
Participants
Don's After-Dinner Speech
Recent Papers
(from 1995):
- Burnside's theorem for Hopf algebras
(with Declan Quinn)
- Involutory Hopf algebras
(with Declan Quinn)
- Derivations of skew polynomial rings
(with J. Marshall Osborn)
- Delta ideals of Lie color algebras
(with Jeffrey Bergen)
- Semiprimitivity of group algebras: a survey
- Semiprimitivity of group algebras of locally
finite groups II
- The semiprimitivity problem for group algebras
of locally finite groups
- Representations of the Gupta-Sidki group
(with W. V. Temple)
- The semiprimitivity problem for twisted group
algebras of locally finite groups
- Ultraproducts and the group ring semiprimitivity
problem
- Group algebras whose units satisfy a
group identity II
- Construction of
free subgroups in the
group of units of modular group algebras (with J. Z.
Goncalves)
- The Jacobson radical of group rings of
locally finite groups
- Semiprimitivity of group algebras: past
results and recent progress
- Enveloping
algebras of Lie color
algebras: primeness versus graded-primeness (with Jeffrey
Bergen)
- Group algebras with units satisfying a
group identity II (with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- The semiprimitivity of group
algebras
- Semi-invariants and weights of group
algebras of finite groups (with P. Wauters)
- Noetherian down-up algebras (with
Ellen Kirkman and Ian M. Musson)
- Simple Lie
algebras of Witt
type
- Simple Lie
Color algebras of Witt
type
- Groups with all irreducible modules of
finite degree (with W. V. Temple)
- Simple Lie
algebras of special type
(with J. Bergen)
- Trace methods
in twisted group rings
- Unitary
units in group algebras
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Invariant
ideals of abelian group
algebras and representations of groups of Lie type
(with A. E. Zalesskii)
- Invariant
ideals of abelian group
algebras under the multiplicative action of a field, I
(with A. E. Zalesskii)
- Invariant
ideals of abelian group
algebras under the multiplicative action of a field, II
(with J. M. Osterburg and A. E. Zalesskii)
- Free unit
groups in group algebras
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Twisted group
algebras and generalized
polynomial identities
- Polycyclic restricted Lie algebras
(with V. M. Petrogradsky)
- Trace methods
in twisted group rings, II (with J. M. Osterburg)
- Invariant ideals and polynomial forms
- Free unit
groups in algebras
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Invariant ideals of
abelian group algebras under the action of simple linear groups
- Finitely generated simple algebras: a
question of B. I. Plotkin (with A. I. Lichtman)
- Free products in linear groups
- Embedding free
products in the unit group of an integral group ring (with J. Z.
Goncalves)
- Filtrations in semisimple rings
- Filtrations in semisimple Lie algebras, I (with
Y. Barnea)
- Filtrations in semisimple Lie algebras, II (with
Y. Barnea)
- Linear groups and group rings
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Polynomial and inverse forms
- Prime Lie rings of derivations of commutative rings
in characteristic 2
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- "Multiplicative Invariant Theory" by Martin Lorenz, (a book review)
- A description of incidence rings
of group automata (with A. V. Kelarev)
- Free subgroups in linear groups and group rings
- Finitary actions and invariant ideals
- Involutions and free pairs of bicyclic units in integral group rings
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Filtrations in semisimple Lie algebras, III
- Multiplicative Jordan decomposition in group rings of 3-groups
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- Multiplicative Jordan decomposition in group rings of 2,3-groups
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- Invariant ideals of abelian group
algebras under the torus action of a field, I
- Character theory and group rings
- Invariant ideals of abelian group
algebras under the torus action of a field, II
- Involutions and free pairs of Bass cyclic units in integral
group rings (with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Rewritable groups
(with M. I. Elashiry)
- Elementary bialgebra properties of group rings
and enveloping rings: An introduction to Hopf algebras
- Multiplicative Jordan decomposition in group rings of 3-groups, II
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- Multiplicative Jordan decomposition in group rings with a Wedderburn
component of degree 3
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- Explicit free groups in division rings
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Involutions and free pairs of bicyclic units in integral group rings
of non-nilpotent groups
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Groups with certain normality conditions
(with Chia-Hsin Liu)
- Free groups in normal subgroups of the multiplicative group of a division ring
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Permutational and rewritable groups
- Free pairs of symmetric elements in normal subgroups of division rings
(with J. Z. Goncalves)
- Finite presentation
(with L. W. Small)
- On the counterexamples to the unit conjecture for group rings
- Affine Noetherian algebras and extensions of the base field II
(with L. W. Small)
Abstracts
and PDF files.
In the Forbidden City (1992)
At Stonehenge (2005)
At the Taj Mahal (2006)
Family in Minnetonka (2006)
Tom
Sam
Barbara
Eve
Pam
Jon
Rebecca
Jordan
Marj
Don
Abe
Holy Toledo, we are in Spain (2009)
At the Western Wall (2010)
Family in London (2010)
Eve
Sam
Tom
Rebecca
Don
Abe
Barbara
Jon
Marj
Jordan
Pam
Family in St. Paul (2012)
Rebecca
Tom
Jordan
Jon
Eve (in front)
Sam
Don
Pam
Abe
Marj
Barbara
Family Reunion in Estes Park (2014)
Sam
Tom
Rebecca
Abe
Pam
Eve
Barbara
Don
Marj
Jon
Jordan
At Stewart Glacier, Alaska (2015)
Thanksgiving in Madison (2016)
Tom
Barb
Pam
Jon
Sam
Bex
Don
Marj
Rusty
Abe
Eve
Jordan
Eve's Bat Mitzvah (2017)
Bex
Jon
Pam
Don
Marj
Tom
Barb
Sam
Jordan
Eve
Abe
The Tomb of Issai Schur (2017)
In Tel Aviv, Israel
With Lance Small
Schur was Don's
mathematical grandfather
Family in Rome (2018)
Abe
Jon
Barb
Tom
Marj
Don
Sam
Jordan
Bex
Eve
Pam
The Sydney Opera House (2018)
Status:
Home page revised January 2023.