Leonard L. Scott, Jr. is the Joseph Moore McConnell and David Meade Bernard Professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Virginia. He was born on October 17, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1964, an M.A. from Yale in 1966, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in 1968. His dissertation advisor was Walter Feit. Leonard Scott was then instructor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Chicago in 1968-1970, where his postdoctoral mentor was John Thompson. Scott afterwards returned to Yale as an Assistant Professor in 1970-1971 and then accepted an Associate Professorship in the Center for Advanced Study and Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, 1971-1973. He was Associate Professor from 1971-1978, becoming a full Professor in 1978, and appointed to his present chair in 1987. He was again a member of the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study in 1986-7.

Visiting positions: Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1974-75; Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Yale University, fall 1978; member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (by invitation of Armand Borel), spring 1979; Visiting SERC Senior Fellow, Queen Mary College, University of London, winter and spring 1983; Visiting Professor, MSRI, fall 1990; Visiting SERC Senior Fellow, Oxford University, and Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, winter and spring 1992. In 1999-2000 he held, jointly with his Virginia position, the position of Senior research advisor to the Boston firm, Thinking Investments/Athena Capital.

      In fall 2003 he was a Karcher visitor for a month at the University of Oklahoma Department of Mathematics. .Other short term invited visits include:

 

 

The University of Chicago, spring 1986; ETH, Zurich, and the University of Manchester, summer, 1988; The University of New South Wales, Sydney, fall 1996 and spring 1997; The Newton Institute, Cambridge, spring 1997.

From 1975 to the present Leonard Scott has graduated ten Ph.D. students. He has had nine postdoctoral students and visitors, most recently Andrew Francis in 1998-2000 and in several shorter visits as recent as 2003.  Hebing Rui was a short term postdoctoral visitor in 2004. Also, Peter Hoefsmit, Ove Kroll, George Avrunin, Wolfgang Kimmerle,  Jie Du,  Wayne Wheeler,  and Peter Blanchard (a former Ph.D. student)  were earlier postodoctoral students or visitors, for varying periods.

Leonard Scott was on the editorial board of the AMS University Lecture Series (chair 1993-1999) and is currently an editor of the Journal of Algebra. He has served as a nationally elected member of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) Nominating committee and, currently, the AMS Editorial Boards committee. He serves often as a National Science Foundation referee and panel member. His own research has been supported for over thirty years by the National Science Foundation since 1972. In addition to the AMS, he is a member of AAAS  (the American Association for the Advancement of Science).