Peter Linnell's Personal Information

Home address:

703 Washington St SE
Apt 6
Blacksburg
VA 24060-4933
USA

This photograph of me, Peter Linnell, was taken in my office with an electronic camera by Jim Shockley on April 26, 1996. Click on the image to obtain a bigger version (141K), and then click on the resulting image to return.

History

Genealogy
1953 Born in Manchester England on June 4.
1957-1964 was educated at Broad Oak Primary School
1964-1971 was educated at the Manchester Grammar School
1971-1978 studied Math at Trinity Hall College Cambridge University Obtained B.A. and Ph.D.
1978-1979 was at Dundee College of Education
1979-1982 was a research assistant in the Math Department UMIST Manchester
1982-1983 was a research fellow at Girton College Cambridge
1983-1984 assistant professor in the Math Dept Virginia Tech
1984-1986 Humboldt fellow at Mathematisches Institut Universität Stuttgart under Klaus Roggenkamp with support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1986-1988 assistant professor in the Math Dept Virginia Tech
1988 at the Math Dept University of Manchester for six months.
1988-1991 associate professor in the Math Dept Virginia Tech
1991-1992 Humboldt fellow at Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik Essen under Gerhard Michler with support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1999-2000 On leave at Universität Münster in the SFB under Wolfgang Lück
1992-present full professor in the Math Dept Virginia Tech
Up-to-the-second information about me, try finger -l linnell@math.vt.edu

Memberships

Interests

Cycling, especially in the Alps.
Brian Rourke Cycles, where I have bought three of my frames.
Running, often along the Huckleberry Trail
Classical Music:
What 3 digit number does this 5 second clip of music (.aiff file, 110K, help) determine?

Dislikes traveling by car, elevator; eating ice cream, cookies, pizza, vegetarian food.

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