Stephen William Semmes (born 26 May 1962) is the
Noah Harding Professor of Mathematics at
Rice University
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. He is known for contributions to analysis on
metric space
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s, as well as
harmonic analysis,
complex variable
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s,
partial differential equations, and
differential geometry. He received his B.S.
at the age of 18, a Ph.D. at 21 from
Washington University in St. Louis
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and became a full professor at Rice at 25.
Awards
Semmes was awarded a
Sloan Fellowship
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
...
in 1987. In 1994, he gave an
invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Publications
*
Coifman, R.;
Lions, P.-L.;
Meyer, Y.; Semmes, S.: Compensated compactness and Hardy spaces. J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 72 (1993), no. 3, 247–286.
*
David, Guy; Semmes, Stephen: Analysis of and on uniformly rectifiable sets. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 38. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1993.
*David, G.; Journé, J.-L.; Semmes, S.: Opérateurs de Calderón-Zygmund, fonctions para-accrétives et interpolation.
alderón-Zygmund operators, para-accretive functions and interpolationRev. Mat. Iberoamericana 1 (1985), no. 4, 1–56.
*David, Guy; Semmes, Stephen: Fractured fractals and broken dreams. Self-similar geometry through metric and measure. Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications, 7. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
* (97j:46033) Semmes, S. Finding curves on general spaces through quantitative topology, with applications to Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities. Selecta Math. (N.S.) 2 (1996), no. 2, 155–295.
* Stephen Semmes. "Appendix B: Metric spaces and mappings seen at many scales" (pp. 401–518). In
Gromov, Misha: ''
Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces''. Based on the 1981 French original. With appendices by
M. Katz, P. Pansu and S. Semmes. Translated from the French by Sean Michael Bates. Progress in Mathematics, 152. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1999. xx+585 pp.
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Washington University in St. Louis mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Rice University faculty
1962 births