Antony Wassermann
Antony Wassermann | |
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 Wassermann at Berkeley in 1989 | |
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge (MA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
| Known for | |
| Awards | Invited speaker ICM (1994) Whitehead Prize (1990) Miller Research Fellows (1986–88) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operator algebra |
| Workplaces | |
| Thesis | Automorphic actions of compact groups on operator algebras (1981) |
| Jonathan Rosenberg | |
Antony John Wassermann (born 1957) is a British mathematician working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory (providing several series of subfactors), the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Wassermann was born in 1957.[3] He is the son of the quantum physicist Gerhard Dietrich Wassermann and the brother of the mathematician Alexander Simon Wassermann.[4] He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and St John's College, Cambridge,[5] before going on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Automorphic actions of compact groups on operator algebras".[6][7] Afterwards, he was Directeur de Recherches of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Aix-Marseille University from 1999 to 2013.[3]
Honours
[edit]- Bronze medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 1974.[8]
- Miller Research Fellowship recipient in 1986–88.[9]
- Winner of the Whitehead Prize in 1990.[10][1]
- Invited speaker, International Congresses of Mathematicians, 1994, Zürich.[11]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Operator algebras and conformal field theory. III. Fusion of positive energy representations of LSU(N) using bounded operators. Invent. Math. 133, no. 3, 467–538, 1998. MR1645078
- Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zürich, 1994), 966–979, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995. MR1403996
- Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. I. General theory. Ann. of Math. (2) 130, no. 2, 273–319, 1989. MR1014926
- Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. III. Classification for SU(2). Invent. Math. 93, no. 2, 309–354, 1988. MR948104
- Une démonstration de la conjecture de Connes–Kasparov pour les groupes de Lie linéaires connexes réductifs [A proof of the Connes–Kasparov conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups], C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 304, no. 18, 559–562, 1987. MR894996
References
[edit]- 1 2 Two paragraphs citation for the Junior Whitehead Prize, published in the Bull. London Math. Soc., January 1991
- ↑ Vaughan Jones published a report in the 1994 Seminaire Bourbaki no. 800
- 1 2 Activity report, Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, page 152
- ↑ Webpage of Simon Wassermann
- ↑ "Cambridge tripos results: Science and mathematics". The Times. 28 June 1976. p. 17.
- ↑ Antony John Wassermann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
- ↑ International Mathematical Olympiad
- ↑ The article "Ergodic Actions of Compact Groups on Operator Algebras II"(Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 1988) explicitly mentions on page 1483 the support from the Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ Winners of the Whitehead Prize
- ↑ Invited speakers, International Congresses of Mathematicians
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- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Whitehead Prize winners
- International Mathematical Olympiad participants
- 21st-century English mathematicians
- Living people
- Academic staff of Aix-Marseille University
- 1957 births
- Mathematicians of the University of Cambridge
- People educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne
