Sorin Popa
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]
Sorin Teodor Popa | |
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Born | Sprâncenata, Olt | 24 March 1953
Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
Known for | Von Neumann algebras, subfactors, ergodic theory |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1995)
Ostrowski Prize (2009) Moore Prize (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Doctoral advisor | Dan-Virgil Voiculescu |
Doctoral students | Adrian Ioana |
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]
Selected publications
- Classification of subfactors and their endomorphisms, American Mathematical Society, 1995
- co-authored with Mihai Pimsner, "Entropy and index for subfactors", Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (1986)
- "Classification of amenable subfactors of type II", Acta Mathematica (1994)
- "On the superrigidity of malleable actions with spectral gap", Journal of the American Mathematical Society (2008)
References
- "Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
- Sorin Popa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Guggenheim Foundation. Fellow: Sorin Popa
- International Mathematical Union – Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21–29, 1990, Kyoto, Japan Archived 2015-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
- E. H. Moore Research Article Prize
- AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society