Antony John Wassermann (born 1957) is a British mathematician working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory (providing several series of subfactors), the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.Two paragraphs citation for the Junior Whitehead Prize, published in the Bull. London Math. Soc., January 1991Vaughan Jones published a report in the 1994 Seminaire Bourbaki no. 800
Biography Wassermann was born in 1957. He is the son of the quantum physicist Gerhard Dietrich Wassermann and the brother of the mathematician Alexander Simon Wassermann.Webpage of Simon Wassermann He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and St John's College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Automorphic actions of compact groups on operator algebras".PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1981 Afterwards, he was Directeur de Recherches of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Aix-Marseille University from 1999 to 2013.Activity report, Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, page 152
Honours Bronze medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 1974.International Mathematical Olympiad Miller Research Fellowship recipient in 1986–88.The article "Ergodic Actions of Compact Groups on Operator Algebras II"(Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 1988) explicitly mentions on page 1483 the support from the Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley. Winner of the Whitehead Prize in 1990.Winners of the Whitehead Prize Invited speaker, International Congresses of Mathematicians, 1994, Zürich.Invited speakers, International Congresses of Mathematicians
Selected bibliography Operator algebras and conformal field theory. III. Fusion of positive energy representations of LSU(N) using bounded operators. Invent. Math. 133, no. 3, 467–538, 1998. MR1645078 Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zürich, 1994), 966–979, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995. MR1403996 Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. I. General theory. Ann. of Math. (2) 130, no. 2, 273–319, 1989. MR1014926 Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. III. Classification for SU(2). Invent. Math. 93, no. 2, 309–354, 1988. MR948104 Une démonstration de la conjecture de Connes–Kasparov pour les groupes de Lie linéaires connexes réductifs [A proof of the Connes–Kasparov conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups], C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 304, no. 18, 559–562, 1987. MR894996
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