Sorin Popa

Sorin Teodor Popa
Born (1953-03-24) 24 March 1953
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
Alma mater University of Bucharest
Doctoral advisor Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
Known for Von Neumann algebras, subfactors, ergodic theory
Notable awards

Guggenheim Fellow (1995)

Ostrowski Prize (2009)

Sorin Teodor Popa (24 March 1953) is a Romanian-American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at UCLA.[1]

Biography

Popa earned his PhD 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 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto (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] He is one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Notices of the AMS – Popa Receives Ostrowski Prize
  2. 1 2 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
  5. ↑ AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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