Scott Wolpert
Scott A. Wolpert (born May 24, 1950 ) is an American mathematician .
Wolpert received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1976 with Garo Kiremidjian ( The Weil-Petersson Metric for Teichmueller Space and the Jenkins-Strebel Differentials ). He was then a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. In 1981 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).
Wolpert dealt in particular with the differential geometry of the modular spaces ( Teichmüller spaces ) of Riemann surfaces. He also considered applications in string theory , quantum chaos and in spectral geometry.
In 1992 he proved (together with Carolyn Gordon and David Webb) the existence of different flat areas with the same spectrum of the Laplace operator . In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( The geometry of deformations of a Riemann surface ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Wolpert Families of Riemannian Surfaces and Weil-Petersson-Geometry . American Mathematical Society, 2010
- Editor with Lizhen Ji, Shing-Tung Yau: Geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces . International Press, Somerville / Massachusetts 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scott Wolpert in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Bulletin AMS, Volume 27, 1992, p. 134
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| SURNAME | Wolpert, Scott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolpert, Scott A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1950 |