Alexander Volberg
Alexander Volberg ( Russian Александр Львович Вольберг ; born March 6, 1956 in Leningrad ) is a Russian-American mathematician.
Volberg received his doctorate in 1981 at the Steklow Institute in Leningrad under Nikolai Nikolski ( Completeness of Rationals in weighted spaces ). He has been a professor (currently Distinguished University Professor) at Michigan State University since 1991 . In 2007/2008 he was Edmund Whittaker Professor at the University of Edinburgh . He was also visiting professor at MSRI , the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics , the University of Bordeaux, Stanford University , the Institute for Advanced Study (2004), and Caltech(1997, 2001), at the IPAM of UCLA and the University of Paris VI.
He deals with singular integrals, complex analysis, harmonic analysis and operator theory.
In 1988 he received the Salem Prize and in 2005 was Lars Onsager Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In 1990 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Kyōto ( Asymptotically holomorphic functions and their use in analysis ).
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| SURNAME | Volberg, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вольберг, Александр Львович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |