Sorin Teodor Popa (born 24 March 1953) is a Romanian American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

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)
Moore Prize (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Studiul unor clase de subalgebre ale -algebrelor  (1983)
Doctoral advisorDan-Virgil Voiculescu
Doctoral studentsAdrian Ioana
Websitewww.math.ucla.edu/~popa

Biography

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Popa earned his PhD from the University of Bucharest in 1983 under the supervision of Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, with thesis Studiul unor clase de subalgebre ale  -algebrelor.[1][2] He has advised 15 doctoral students at UCLA, including Adrian Ioana.[2]

Honors and awards

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In 1990, Popa was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto, where he gave a talk 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] and in 2010 the E. H. Moore Prize.[5] He is one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[6] In 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
  2. ^ a b Sorin Popa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Sorin Popa". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  4. ^ "International Mathematical Union – Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21–29, 1990, Kyoto, Japan" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2015.
  5. ^ "Browse Prizes and Awards". American Mathematical Society.
  6. ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society.
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