Michael Rapoport

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Michael Rapoport, Bonn 2007

Michael Rapoport (born October 2, 1948 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an Austrian mathematician who lives and works in Germany.

life and work

Michael Rapoport was born as the son of the Jewish Austrian biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport and the German pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport. Syllm was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his parents fled because of the Nazi regime. His parents were both staunch socialists . One of his three siblings is Harvard University biochemist Tom Rapoport . The family lived first in the United States and then, because of their parents' political beliefs, in the German Democratic Republic . Rapoport attended the EOS mathematical direction "Heinrich Hertz" in the East Berlin district of Adlershof , where he passed his Abitur in 1967. Since he had Austrian citizenship due to his father's origins and did not give it up when he reached the age of majority , he was able to study in western countries, in contrast to GDR citizens. From 1967 he studied mathematics in Berlin, Paris, Princeton and Harvard , and received his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Paris-South under Pierre Deligne (dissertation: Compactifications de l'espace de modules de Hilbert-Blumenthal ).

From 1976 to 1980 Michael Rapoport was an assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1982 he was professor in Heidelberg , from 1986 in Bonn , then from 1989 in Wuppertal and from 1996 at the University of Cologne . From 2003 to 2017 he was professor for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn .

He became known for his work on Shimura varieties and the proof of the Langlands conjecture for local functional bodies (together with Gérard Laumon and Ulrich Stuhler ) in the essay " -elliptic sheaves and the Langlands correspondence."

His doctoral students include Torsten Wedhorn , Ulrich Görtz , Peter Scholze and Eva Viehmann .

Awards

Fonts

  • with P. Deligne : Les schémas de modules de courbes elliptiques. Modular functions of one variable, II (Proc. Internat. Summer School, Univ. Antwerp, Antwerp, 1972), pp. 143-316. Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 349, Springer, Berlin 1973. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-37855-6_4 .
  • with A. Ash, D. Mumford , Y. Tai: Smooth compactification of locally symmetric varieties. Lie Groups: History, Frontiers and Applications, Vol. IV. Math. Sci. Press, Brookline, Mass. 1975.
  • with T. Zink: About the local zeta function of Shimura varieties. Monodromic filtration and vanishing cycles with unequal characteristics. In: Invent. Math. 68 (1982) no. 1, pp. 21-101. doi: 10.1007 / BF01394268
  • with G. Laumon, U. Stuhler: -elliptic sheaves and the Langlands correspondence. In: Invent. Math. 113 (1993) no. 2, pp. 217-338. doi: 10.1007 / BF01244308
  • Non-Archimedean period domains . Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zurich, 1994), Birkhäuser, Basel 1995, pp. 423-434.
  • with T. Zink: Period spaces for divisible groups. In: Annals of Mathematics Studies. 141. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1996.
  • with S. Kudla, T. Yang: Modular forms and special cycles on Shimura curves. In: Annals of Mathematics Studies. 161. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006, ISBN 0-691-12551-1 .
  • with S. Kudla: Special cycles on unitary Shimura varieties I. Unramified local theory. In: Invent. Math. 184 (2011), no. 3, pp. 629-682.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Place of birth and date according to Kürschner's scholar's calendar
  2. Prof. Dr. Rapoport: How the Fermat problem was solved , lecture at Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium ( Memento from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Lecture on the 50th school anniversary . (On the website of the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium, accessed May 25, 2015)
  3. Michael Rapoport in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  4. Rapoport, Laumon, Stuhler: Inventiones Mathematicae , Volume 113 (1993), pp. 217–338 ( online at DigiZeitschriften )
  5. ^ German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina : Leopoldina. Self-published, Halle 2004, p. 111.
  6. Member entry by Michael Rapoport (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.