Jeffrey David Adams (born 1956) is a mathematician at the University of Maryland who works on unitary representations of reductive

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s and who led the project '' Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations'' that calculated the characters of the representations of E₈. The project to calculate the representations of E₈ has been compared to the

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in scope. Together with Dan Barbasch and

David Vogan David Alexander Vogan, Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups. While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow ...

, he co-authored a monograph on a geometric approach to the Langlands classification and Arthur's conjectures in the real case. He completed his Ph.D. at Yale University under the supervision of Gregg Zuckerman in 1981. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-03.

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of Jeffrey Adams * * Adams, Jeffrey; Barbasch, Dan; Vogan, David A., Jr. ''The Langlands classification and irreducible characters for real reductive groups.'' Progress in Mathematics, 104. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1992. xii+318 pp. , 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Living people 1955 births Fellows of the American Mathematical Society University of Maryland, College Park faculty {{US-mathematician-stub