Roger Howe

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Roger Howe in 2010

Roger Evans Howe (born May 23, 1945 in Chicago ) is an American mathematician . He deals with representation theory , automorphic forms , harmonic analysis and invariant theory .

Life

Howe studied at Harvard University (bachelor's degree 1966) and received his doctorate in 1969 with Calvin Moore at Yale University ( On representations of nilpotent groups ). From 1969 he was Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and from 1975 he was Professor at Yale University. 1971/72 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and 1973/74 guest scientist in Bonn . He was also visiting professor and visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University , in Oxford , at École Normale des Jeunes Filles in Paris , at Hebrew University , at the University of California, San Diego , the National University of Singapore , in Japan, at Rutgers University , Paris VII University and in Hong Kong .

In 1984 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1994) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993). In 2006 he received the AMS Distinguished Public Service Award for his commitment to mathematics education . In 1984/85 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1964 he won the William Lowell Putnam competition as a student.

Fonts

  • with William H. Barker: Continuous symmetry: from Euclid to Klein , AMS 2007
  • with Eng Chye Tan: Non-abelian harmonic analysis: applications of SL (2, R) , Springer Verlag 1992
  • Remarks on Classical Invariant Theory , Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 313, 1989, pp. 539-570
  • On the role of the Heisenberg group in harmonic analysis , Bulletin AMS, Volume 3, 1980, pp. 821-843, online
  • Affine-like Hecke algebras and p-adic representation theory , in: Baldoni, Barbasch, Iwahori-Hecke algebras and their representation theory , CIME Summer School 1999, Lecture notes in mathematics 1804, Springer 2002

literature

  • Jian-Shu Li, Eng-Chye Tan, Nolan Wallach, Chen-Bo Zhu: Harmonic Analysis, Group Representations, Automorphic Forms and Invariant Theory. In Honor of Roger E. Howe , Lectures note Series, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, World Scientific 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Roger Evans Howe in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  3. ^ For Very basic Lie theory , Amer. Math. Monthly 90: 600-623 (1983)
  4. ^ Yale News 2006