Professor Floyd L. Williams obtained his Ph.D. Mathematics in 1972. He held the positions of Associate Instructor at the University of California/Irvine (1970–72) and Instructor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972–75). At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the author has been Assistant Professor (1975–1978), Associate Professor (1978–84), and Professor (1984–).
1. The author has published over 100 papers and several books.
2. In 2013 he was inducted as a Fellow into the American Mathematical Society.