W. Stephen Wilson Professor Department of Mathematics 421 Krieger Hall Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 410-516-7413 wsw@math.jhu.edu My real Home Page where most things are.

My field of interest and research is homotopy theory, generally from an algebraic viewpoint. I tend to specialize in the use and development of complex (co)bordism, Brown-Peterson (co)homology and Morava K-theory. In my spare time I have taken up an interest in K-12 mathematics education and this led to a full time position for 8 months of 2006 when I served as Senior Advisor for Mathematics in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, United States Department of Education. I own lots of suits and ties now. Leading Minds K-12 Math Education Forum, April 24, 2008. My powerpoint presentation. The web page for the whole symposium, including everyone's powerpoints and videos of the whole event. Soon to be infamous Geometry exam. Here are the answers to the first 9 questions, with the answers in numerical order. Here are the answers to the entire exam. Here are the solutions to the problems. I gave this test to my 240 Calculus 3 students on the first day of class, Fall, 2008. The average was 2.16 out of 10, but to be fair, they only had about 35 minutes. The grade distribution is here. My personal Home page, where most things are. Education S.B. M.I.T. 1969 S.M. M.I.T. 1969 Ph.D. M.I.T. 1972 under the direction of Franklin P. Peterson (1930-2000). For my CV, educational activities and papers. 60th birthday conference stuff. Slides for my talk and photos of the conference and banquet. Keep in mind that these were mostly taken by my son Saul, which explains why there are 300+ of them. The whole collection runs about 1.3GB.

Recent Papers

• G. Martino with W.S. Wilson. Doing the Math: Are Maryland's High School Math Standards Adding up to College Success?. The Abell Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. April 2009.

• W.S. Wilson. Elementary School Mathematics Priorities. AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 6(1):40-49, Spring 2009. This comes complete with a rebuttal to precision.

• W.S. Wilson. Washington State High School Math Text Review. A colleague, Guershon Harel, also did a review. These both go with the report.

• W.S. Wilson. Arithmetic, Geometry, and Calculus III. Preprint. Probably not for publication. An MSWord version is here.

• J. González and W.S. Wilson. The BP-theory of two-fold products of projective spaces. Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Volume 10(3), 2008, pp. 181-192.

• N. Kitchloo and W.S. Wilson. The second real Johnson-Wilson theory and non-immersions of RPⁿ, Part II. Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Volume 10(3), 2008, pp. 269-290.

• N. Kitchloo and W.S. Wilson. The second real Johnson-Wilson theory and non-immersions of RPⁿ. Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Volume 10(3), 2008, pp. 223-268.

• W.S. Wilson. Review of Mathematial Soundness: Background Notes for WA State Curriculum Study. October 27, 2008. This goes with Independent Study of Washington State K-8 Curriculum Review by Strategic Teaching for the Washington State Board of Education. The review takes into consideration supplements prepared by TERC Investigations just for the state of Washington. We learned about the supplements late so there is a review that only uses the basic TERC Investigations program that does not include the supplements. This may be of interest to people outside the state of Washington.

• W.S. Wilson. Are our students better now? Published under the title What Do College Students Know? Education Next, 8(4):88, Fall 2008.

• Contributing author, W.S. Wilson. Primary author: Linda Plattner. Revised 9-12 mathematics standards approved by the Washington State Board of Education. July, 2008.

• Contributing author, W.S. Wilson. Primary author: Linda Plattner. Revised K-8 mathematics standards approved by the Washington State Board of Education. April 28, 2008.

• Contributing author, W.S. Wilson. Primary author: Linda Plattner. A Report to the Washington State Board of Education: Second Review of Washington K-12 Mathematics Standards. March 10, 2008.

• Contributing author, W.S. Wilson. Primary author: Linda Plattner. A Report to the Washington State Board of Education: Follow-Up to Review and Recommendations. February 5, 2008.

• Contributing author, W.S. Wilson. Primary author: Linda Plattner. Washington State Mathematics Standards: Review and Recommendations. August 30, 2007.

• J. M. Boardman and W.S. Wilson. k(n)-torsion-free H-spaces and P(n)-cohomology. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 59(6):1154-1206, 2007

• N. Kitchloo and W.S. Wilson. On the Hopf ring for ER(n). Topology and its Applications, 154:1608-1640, 2007.

• M. Ando, N. Minami, J. Morava, and W.S. Wilson, editors, Proceedings of the Nishida Fest (Kinosaki 2003), volume 10 of Geometry & Topology Monographs, 2007.

• N. Kitchloo and W.S. Wilson. On fibrations related to real spectra. In M. Ando, N. Minami, J. Morava, and W.S. Wilson, editors, Proceedings of the Nishida Fest (Kinosaki 2003), volume 10 of Geometry & Topology Monographs, pages 237-244, 2007.

• Barbara Reys, Carolyn Baldree, Donna Taylor, and W.S. Wilson. Grade 6: Process and standards. In Johnny W. Lott and Kathleen Nishimura, editors, Standards & Curriculum: A view from the Nation, pages 29-32, Reston, Virginia, 2005. NCTM.

• W. S. Wilson. Short response to Tunis's letter to the editor on technology in college. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2005 (58):415-420. This is in response to a letter published in response to the paper below with Naiman.

• David Klein, with Bastiaan J. Braams, Thomas Parker, William Quirk, Wilfried Schmid, and W. Stephen Wilson. Technical assistance from Ralph A. Raimi and Lawrence Braden. Analysis by Justin Torres. Foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr. The State of the State MATH Standards. Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. Washington, D.C. January 2005.

• E. C. Scott with a few hundred Steves including W. S. Wilson. The Morphology of Steve Annals of Improbable Research, 10(4):24-29, July/August 2004.

• W. S. Wilson and D. Q. Naiman. K-12 Calculator usage and college grades. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 56:119-122, 2004. The dvi version of the paper. Older, slightly longer versions of the paper: The dvi version. The pdf version. The word perfect version.

• N. Kitchloo, G. Laures, and W.S. Wilson. Splittings of bicommutative Hopf algebras. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 194: 159-168, 2004.

• N. Kitchloo, G. Laures, and W.S. Wilson. The Morava K-theory of spaces related to BO. Advances in Mathematics. 189(1):192-236, 2004.

• D. Davis, J. Morava, G. Nishida, W.S. Wilson, and N. Yagita, editors. Recent Progress in Homotopy Theory: Proceedings of a conference on Recent Progress in Homotopy Theory, March 17-27, 2000, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., volume 293 of Contemporary Mathematics. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002.

• T. Kashiwabara and W. S. Wilson. The Morava K-theory and Brown-Peterson cohomology of spaces related to BP. Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University, 41(1):43-95, March 2001.

• J. M. Boardman and W. S. Wilson. Unstable splittings related to Brown-Peterson cohomology. In J. Aguade, C. Broto, and C. Casacuberta, editors, Cohomological Methods in Homotopy Theory, Barcelona Conference on Algebraic Topology, Bellaterra, Spain. June 4-10, 1998, volume 196 of Progress in Mathematics, pages 35--45, Basel/Switzerland, 2001. Birkhauser Verlag.

• W. S. Wilson. Hopf rings in algebraic topology. Expositiones Mathematicae, 18:369-388, 2000.

• W. S. Wilson. The impossible made easy: Learning to calculate with generalized cohomology. In 46-th Annual Japanese Topology Symposium Proceedings. pages 20-30. Hokkaido University, July, 1999.

• J.-P. Meyer, J. Morava, and W.S. Wilson, editors. Homotopy invariant algebraic structures: a conference in honor of J. Michael Boardman, volume 239 of Contemporary Mathematics. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999.

• J. M. Boardman, R. L. Kramer, and W. S. Wilson. The periodic Hopf ring of connective Morava K-theory. Forum Mathematicum, 11:761-767, 1999.

• W. S. Wilson. K(n+1) equivalence implies K(n) equivalence. In J.-P. Meyer, J. Morava, and W. S. Wilson, editors, Homotopy invariant algebraic structures: a conference in honor of J. Michael Boardman, Contemporary Mathematics, pages 375-376. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999.

• W. S. Wilson. Brown-Peterson Cohomology from Morava K-Theory, II. K-Theory, 17:95-101, 1999.

• H. Sadofsky and W. S. Wilson. Commutative Morava homology Hopf algebras . In M.E. Mahowald and S. Priddy, editors, Homotopy Theory in Algebraic Topology, volume 220 of Contemporary Mathematics, pages 367-373, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998, American Mathematical Society. The original submission is included here because the referee made us take out all of the proofs. Honest.

• D. C. Ravenel, W. S. Wilson, and N. Yagita. Brown-Peterson Cohomology from Morava K-Theory. K-Theory, 15(2):149-199, 1998.

• M. J. Hopkins, D. C. Ravenel and W. S. Wilson. Morava Hopf algebras and spaces K(n)-equivalent to finite Postnikov systems . W. G. Dwyer, et. al., editors, Stable and Unstable Homotopy , volume 19 of The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences Communications Series, pages 137-163, Providence, R.I., 1998. American Mathematical Society.

• W. S. Wilson. Hopf ring . In Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Supplementary Volume I , pages 299-300. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

• D. C. Johnson and W. S. Wilson. On a Theorem of Ossa . Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 125(12):3753-3755, 1997.

• P. J. Eccles, P. R. Turner, and W. S. Wilson. On the Hopf ring for the sphere. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 224:229-233, 1997.

• W. S. Wilson. Wei-Liang Chow . Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 43(10):1117-1124, October 1996. Organizer.

• D. C. Ravenel and W. S. Wilson. The Hopf ring for P(n). Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 48(5):1044-1063, 1996.

• J. M. Boardman, D. C. Johnson, and W. S. Wilson. Unstable operations in generalized cohomology. In I. M. James, editor, The Handbook of Algebraic Topology, chapter 15, pages 687-828. Elsevier, 1995. The companion paper by J. Michael Boardman precedes it in the Handbook: Stable operations in generalized cohomology.

• D. C. Johnson, W. S. Wilson, and D. Y. Yan. Brown-Peterson homology of elementary p-groups, II. Topology and its applications, 59:117-136, 1994.