Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a
Uruguay
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an
mathematician
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. He is Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Washington
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, and a fellow of
Trinity College. Previously he was a professor in
DPMMS at the
University of Cambridge
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. He obtained his
Licenciatura from
Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay in 1987, and his PhD from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991. He has lectured several undergraduate and graduate courses and has gained widespread popularity due to his entertaining and informal lecturing style, which has been recognised by the university in the past for its high calibre. He was managing editor of the mathematical journal ''
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' for the period 2006–2011.
He is known for his work on dynamical and geometrical aspects of Hamiltonian systems, in particular magnetic and geodesic flows. His recent
research focuses on geometric inverse problems and his collaboration with
Mikko Salo and
Gunther Uhlmann yielded solutions to several inverse problems in two dimensions, including the tensor tomography problem
and the proof of spectral rigidity of an Anosov surface.
In his spare time he partakes in a wide variety of sports, notably football.
References
External links
*http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~gpp24/
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Uruguayan mathematicians
Stony Brook University alumni
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge mathematicians
21st-century Uruguayan mathematicians
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