Gan Wee Teck

Gan Wee Teck
Gan at the MFO, 2011
Born	(1972-03-11) 11 March 1972 (age 49)
Nationality	Malaysian
Alma mater	Harvard University Cambridge University
Known for	Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture
Awards	President’s Science Award, Singapore (2017) [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	National University of Singapore
Doctoral advisor	Benedict Gross

Gan Wee Teck (Chinese: 颜维德; pinyin: Yán Wéi Dé; born 11 March 1972) is a Malaysian mathematician of Chinese descent, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is known for his work on automorphic forms and representation theory in the context of the Langlands program, especially the theory of theta correspondence, the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture and the Langlands program for Brylinski–Deligne covering groups.

Biography[]

Though born in Malaysia, Gan grew up in Singapore and attended Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, the Chinese High School, and Hwa Chong Junior College. He did his undergraduate studies at Churchill College, Cambridge University, followed by graduate studies at Harvard University, working under Benedict Gross and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1998. He was subsequently a faculty member at Princeton University (1998–2003) and University of California, San Diego (2003–2010) before moving to the National University of Singapore in 2010.

Contributions[]

With his collaborators, Gan has resolved several basic problems in the theory of theta correspondence (or Howe correspondence), such as the Howe duality conjecture and the Siegel–Weil formula. He has also made contributions to the Gross–Prasad conjecture, the local Langlands correspondence and the representation theory of metaplectic groups.

Selected works[]

• W. T. Gan, B. H. Gross and D. Prasad, Symplectic local root numbers, central critical L-values and restriction problems in the representation theory of classical groups, Asterisque 346(2012), 1–110.
• W. T. Gan and A. Ichino, The Shimura–Waldspurger correspondence for Mp(2n), Annals Math. (2) 188 (2018), no. 3, 965–1016.
• W. T. Gan and S. Takeda, A proof of the Howe duality conjecture, J. of American Math. Society 29 (2016), no. 2, 473–493.
• W. T. Gan and A. Ichino, Formal degrees and local theta correspondence, Inventiones Math. 195 (2014), 509–672.
• W. T. Gan and G. Savin, Representations of metaplectic groups I: epsilon dichotomy and local Langlands correspondence, Compositio Mathematica 148 (2012), no. 6, 1655–1694.
• W. T. Gan, Y. Qiu and S. Takeda, The regularized Siegel–Weil formula (the second term identity) and the Rallis inner product formula, Inventiones Math. 198 (2014), 739–831.

Awards and honours[]

• Senior Wrangler, University of Cambridge (1994)^{[2][circular reference]}
• American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship (2002–2003)^[3]
• Sloan Research Fellowship (Math, 2003)^[4]
• Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2014 (Number Theory section)^[5]
• President's Science Award 2017, Singapore^[6]
• Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (2018)^[7]

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