Eugene Trubowitz is an American

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who studies analysis and mathematical physics. He is a Global Professor of Mathematics at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Life and work

Trubowitz, who was born in 1951, received his doctorate in 1977 under the supervision of Henry McKean at

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, with thesis titled ''The inverse problem for periodic potentials''. Since 1983, he was a full professor of mathematics at the

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

. As of 2016, he has retired from his position at ETH. Trubowitz studies scattering theory (some with

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, and inverse scattering theory), integrable systems and their connection to algebraic geometry, mathematical theory of Fermi liquids in the statistical mechanics. In 1994 he was an invited speaker at the

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; his talk was on ''A rigorous (renormalization group) analysis of superconducting systems''.

Writings

* with Percy Deift: ''Inverse scattering on the line'', Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol.32, 1979, pp. 121–251 * with Joel Feldman, Horst Knörrer: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS (American Mathematical Society) 2003 * with Feldman, Knörrer: Fermionic functional integrals and the renormalization group, AMS 2002 * with D. Gieseker, Knörrer: Geometry of algebraic Fermi curves, Academic Press 1992 * with Jürgen Pöschel: Inverse spectral theory, Academic Press 1987

References

The original article was a translation of the corresponding German article. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07-27/pdf/2012-18309.pdf

External links

Homepage an der ETH
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