Sorin Popa

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Sorin Teodor Popa
Born (1953-03-24) 24 March 1953 (age 68)
Bucharest, Romania
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
Doctoral advisorDan-Virgil Voiculescu
Doctoral studentsAdrian Ioana

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

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
  2. ^ Jump up to: 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 Archived 2015-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ E. H. Moore Research Article Prize
  6. ^ AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

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