Eugene Trubowitz is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who studies analysis and mathematical physics. He is a Global Professor of Mathematics at

New York University Abu Dhabi New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD, ar, جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي) is a degree granting, portal campus of New York University serving as a private, liberal arts college, located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Together wit ...

Life and work

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

Henry McKean Henry P. McKean, Jr. (born 1930 in Wenham, Massachusetts) is an American mathematician at the Courant Institute in New York University. He works in various areas of analysis. He obtained his PhD in 1955 from Princeton University under William Fel ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, ...

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

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

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

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...

; 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 Horst Knörrer (born 31 July 1953, in Bayreuth) is a German mathematician, who studies algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. Knörrer studied from 1971 at University of Regensburg and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received a doctor ...

: 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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