Dan Voiculescu (mathematician)
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born June 14, 1949 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian-American mathematician.
Voiculescu studied from 1967 to 1972 at the University of Bucharest , where he received his doctorate in 1977 with Ciprian Foias . From 1972 he was an assistant at the University of Bucharest and 1973 and until 1975 at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences . After the dissolution of the institute in 1975 he was at INCREST in Bucharest. In 1986 he used a visit to the ICM in Berkeley to stay in the USA. He was initially visiting professor and from 1987 professor at the University of California, Berkeley , where he was visiting associate professor in spring 1981. He was visiting professor at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris (2000), at the Center de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal (1991), at the University of Paris VI (1997), at the ETH Zurich (1997), at the University of Berkeley (Miller Professor 1997/98) and visiting scholar at the Fields Institute in Toronto , at IHES , the Schrödinger Institute in Vienna and at the Clay Mathematics Institute (2000).
In 2006 Voiculescu became a member of the National Academy of Sciences , whose NAS Award in Mathematics he received in 2004 for the development of the theory of free probability and especially its application to random matrices and the development of a new entropy concept as well as applications in solving difficult problems in the theory of Von Neumann algebras . The “freedom” concept is a new concept within the non-commutative probability theory (with non-commutating stochastic variables) analogous to the usual statistical independence. Many theorems and concepts of ordinary probability theory have analogies there, such as a central limit theorem and also a new entropy concept.
In 1997 he was a Guggenheim fellow . He was invited speaker at the ICM 1983 in Warsaw ( Hilbert space operators modulo normed ideals ) and gave a plenary lecture at the ICM 1994 in Zurich ( Free Probability: Random Matrices and Von Neumann Algebras ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1992 he was invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Paris ( Alternative entropies in operator algebras ).
He has been married since 1979.
Fonts
- Symmetries arising from free probability , in: Pierre Cartier et al. a .: Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry , Volume 1, Springer Verlag 2006
Web links
- To receive the NAS award, Notices AMS 2004, PDF file, English
- Website in Berkeley
- Website about him, Romania on line
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voiculescu, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voiculescu, Dan-Virgil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |