Anthony To-Ming Lau

Anthony To-Ming Lau is a mathematician who took his doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1969, with a dissertation titled Topological Semigroups written under the direction of Edmond E. Granirer. He went on to supervise doctoral students at the University of Alberta, and the Mathematics Genealogy Project lists 31 students and 123 descendants for him, from Maria Klawe, whose 1977 Alberta thesis was titled Studies in Amenable Semigroups, to more recent graduates of the department. The zbMATH Open author profile assigns his published work mainly to abstract harmonic analysis, functional analysis and topological groups, the fields in which the study of semigroups and their invariant means sits.