Stanisław Lech Woronowicz
Stanisław Lech Woronowicz (born July 22, 1941 in Ukmergė ) is a Polish mathematician and physicist.
Woronowicz received his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Warsaw , completed his habilitation there in 1972 and became a professor there in 1977, with a full professorship since 1991. He was dean of the physics faculty from 1981 to 1984 and head of the department of mathematical methods in physics from 1993 to 1996. Since 1991 he has also been at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences .
He deals with quantum groups (he is one of the pioneers in this field) and operator algebras in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. In the 1980s he introduced compact matrix quantum groups.
He has been a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1991, with full membership since 2002. He was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study , the RIMS in Kyoto, the ETH Zurich, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld and the Center for Theoretical Physics of CNRS in Marseille.
Woronowicz was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1983 (Duality in C * Algebra Theory) and in Kyoto in 1990 (Noncompact Quantum Groups). He received the Banach Medal in 2009 and the Humboldt Research Award in 2008 (with which he was at the University of Göttingen).
Fonts
- Compact Matrix Pseudogroups, Commun. Math. Phys., Vol. 111, 1987, pp. 613-665
- Positive Maps of Low Dimensional Matrix Algebras, Rep. Math. Phys., Volume 10, 1976, pp. 165-183.
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| SURNAME | Woronowicz, Stanisław Lech |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ukmergė |