Gan Wee Teck
Gan Wee Teck (Chinese: 颜维德; pinyin: Yán Wéi Dé; born March 11, 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.
Gan Wee Teck | |
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 Gan at the MFO, 2011 | |
| Born | March 11, 1972 |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Cambridge University |
| Known for | Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture |
| Awards | President’s Science Award, Singapore (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | National University of Singapore |
| Doctoral advisor | Benedict Gross |
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) [1]
- American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship (2002–2003) [2]
- Sloan Research Fellowship (Math, 2003) [3]
- Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2014 (Number Theory section) [4]
- President’s Science Award 2017, Singapore [5]
- Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (2018)[6]