Paul Balmer

Paul Balmer (born 1970) is a Swiss mathematician, working in algebra. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

Paul Balmer
Born1970 (age 49–50)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Lausanne
AwardsHumboldt Prize
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebra
InstitutionsUCLA
ThesisGroupes de Witt dérivés des schémas (1998)
Doctoral advisorManuel Ojanguren
Websitewww.math.ucla.edu/~balmer

Balmer received his Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne in 1998, under the supervision of Manuel Ojanguren, with a thesis entitled Groupes de Witt dérivés des Schémas (in French).[2]

His research centers around triangulated categories. More specifically, he is a proponent of tensor-triangular geometry, an umbrella topic which covers geometric aspects of algebraic geometry, modular representation theory, stable homotopy theory, and other areas, by means of relevant tensor-triangulated categories.

Balmer was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010, with a talk on Tensor Triangular Geometry.[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[4]. He was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 2015.[5]

References
  1. "Home page".
  2. Paul Balmer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Balmer, Paul (2010). "Tensor triangular geometry". Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (PDF). pp. 85–112. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  4. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society".
  5. "Humboldt Research Award".
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