Daqing Wan

Daqing Wan
Born 1964 (age 47–48)
Nationality  China
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Irvine
Alma mater University of Washington
Sichuan University
Chengdu University of Technology
Doctoral advisor Neal Koblitz

Daqing Wan (born 1964 in China) is a Chinese mathematician working in the United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1991, under the direction of Neal Koblitz.[1] Since 1997, he has been on the faculty of mathematics at the University of California at Irvine; he has also held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Rennes, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.[2]

His primary interests include number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly zeta functions over finite fields. He is known for his proof of a conjecture of Bernard Dwork that the unit root zeta function attached to a family of varieties over a finite field of characteristic p is p-adic meromorphic.[3] He received the Morningside Silver Medal of mathematics in 2001.[4]

References

  1. ^ Daqing Wan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae from Wan's web site.
  3. ^ Wan, D. (1999), "Dwork's conjecture on unit root zeta functions", Annals of Mathematics 150 (3): 867–927, arXiv:math/9911270 .
  4. ^ Morningside Award, retrieved 2010-01-27.

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