Sorin Teodor Popa
Born (1953-03-24) 24 March 1953 (age 71)
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Known forVon Neumann algebras, subfactors, ergodic theory
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow (1995) Ostrowski Prize (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorDan-Virgil Voiculescu

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

References

  1. ^ a b c Notices of the AMS – Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize
  2. ^ a b Sorin Popa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Guggenheim Foundation. Fellow: Sorin Popa
  4. ^ International Mathematical Union – Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21–29, 1990, Kyoto, Japan
  5. ^ AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

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