Shmuel Weinberger

Shmuel Aaron Weinberger (born February 20, 1963 ) is an American mathematician who studies algebraic topology .

Weinberger graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in 1981 and received his doctorate in 1982 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University under Sylvain Cappell (Homotopy equivalent manifolds by pasting). As a post-doctoral student he was an instructor at Princeton University and from 1984 Assistant Professor , from 1985 Associate Professor and from 1987 Professor at the University of Chicago . There he stayed until 1994-1996 as Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania . From 2012 he is head of the math faculty in Chicago.

From 1989 to 1992 and 2004 he was visiting professor at the Courant Institute, 2000/2001 visiting professor at Hebrew University and 2006 and 2011 visiting professor at MSRI . He deals with geometric topology, differential geometry , geometric group theory, and applications of topology.

In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (Nonlocally linear manifolds and orbifolds). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1986 he was a Sloan Research Fellow , and in 1985 received a Presidential Young Investigator Award .

Weinberger is editor of Geometriae Dedicata and the Journal of Topology and Analysis (which he co-founded).

He is married and has two children.

Fonts

• The topological classification of stratified spaces , Chicago Lectures in Mathematics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994.
• with Robert Bryant , Steve Ferry , W. Mio: Topology of homology manifolds. Ann. of Math. (2) 143 (1996) no. 3, 435-467.
• with Alexander Nabutovsky : Variational problems for Riemannian functionals and arithmetic groups. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. No. 92 (2000): 5-62 (2001). (examines the modular space Riemannian metrics)
• Computers, rigidity, and moduli: The large-scale fractal geometry of Riemannian moduli space . MB Porter Lectures. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005
• with Erik Guentner , Nigel Higson : The Novikov conjecture for linear groups. Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. No. 101: 243-268 (2005).
• with Partha Niyorgi, Stephen Smale : Finding the homology of submanifolds with high confidence from random samples. Discrete Comput. Geom. 39 (2008), no. 1-3, 419-441.
• with Benson color : Isometries, rigidity and universal covers. Ann. of Math. (2) 168 (2008), no. 3, 915-940. (characterizes manifolds with non-discrete isometric groups)

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project