Stephen Samuel Gelbart (; born June 12, 1946) is an American-Israeli mathematician who holds the Nicki and J. Ira Harris Professorial Chair in mathematics at the

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in Israel.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-01-27. He was named a

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of the

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in 2013 "for contributions to the development and dissemination of the

Langlands program In mathematics, the Langlands program is a set of conjectures about connections between number theory, the theory of automorphic forms, and geometry. It was proposed by . It seeks to relate the structure of Galois groups in algebraic number t ...

Biography

Gelbart was born in

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, son of the mathematician Abe Gelbart. He graduated from

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in 1967, and earned a Ph.D. from

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in 1970, with a dissertation on

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supervised by Elias M. Stein. He returned to Cornell as an assistant professor in 1971, was promoted to full professor in 1980, moved to the Weizmann Institute in 1984, and was given his named chair in 1998. He was president of the Israel Mathematical Union from 1994 to 1996. His doctoral students include Erez Lapid.

Selected publications

Articles

*Harmonics on Stiefel manifolds and generalized Hankel transforms. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972) 451–455. *A theory of Stiefel harmonics. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 192 (1974) 29–50. *An elementary introduction to the Langlands program. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1984) 177–219. *with Freydoon Shahidi: Boundedness of automorphic ''L''-functions in vertical strips. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001) 79–107. *with Stephen D. Miller: Riemann's zeta function and beyond. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004) 59–112.

Books

* * *with Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro and

Stephen Rallis Stephen James Rallis (May 17, 1942 – April 17, 2012) was an American mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands program, Langlands L-functions. Career Rallis received a B.A. in ...

: *with Freydoon Shahidi: *

as editor

* with Joseph Bernstein as editor and 6 contributing authors:

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