Sorin Popa
| Sorin Teodor Popa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 March 1953 |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Doctoral advisor | Dan-Virgil Voiculescu |
| Known for | Von Neumann algebras, subfactors, ergodic theory |
| Notable awards |
Guggenheim Fellow (1995) Ostrowski Prize (2009) |
Sorin Teodor Popa (24 March 1953) is a Romanian-American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at UCLA.[1]
Biography
Popa earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1983 under the supervision of Dan-Virgil Voiculescu.[1][2]
He has advised 15 doctoral students at UCLA, including Adrian Ioana.[2]
Honors and awards
In 1990 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto (on "Subfactors and Classifications in von Neumann algebras"). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1995.[3] In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Madrid (on "Deformation and Rigidity for group actions and Von Neumann Algebras"[4]). In 2009 he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize.[1] He is one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Selected publications
- Classification of subfactors and their endomorphisms, American Mathematical Society, 1995
- co-authored with M. Pimsner, "Entropy and index for subfactors", Annales scientifiques de l'Ecole normale supérieure (1986)
- "Classification of amenable subfactors of type II", Acta Mathematica (1994)
References
- 1 2 3 Notices of the AMS – Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize
- 1 2 Sorin Popa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Guggenheim Foundation. Fellow: Sorin Popa
- ↑ International Mathematical Union – Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21–29, 1990, Kyoto, Japan
- ↑ AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
External links
- Homepage of Sorin Popa at the University of California, Los Angeles
- UCLA – Sorin Popa elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences