In Memoriam

Calvin C. Moore

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Representations and actions of topological groups, Operator algebras

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Moore, Calvin C. (...

Robert F. Coleman

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

We are very sad to report the sudden death of Professor Robert Coleman in the early morning on March 24, 2014, just a few months after his retirement and a few months short of his sixtieth birthday.

Professor Coleman was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1954. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979; he joined our department in 1983. His ground-...

Marina Ratner

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ergodic theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ratner, Marina (1998). On the p-adic and S-arithmetic generalizations of Raghunathan's conjectures. In Lie groups and ergodic theory (Mumbai, 1996) Tata Inst. Fund. Res. Stud. Math...

Jacob Feldman

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam Biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ergodic theory, Stochastic processes

SELECTED PUBLICATION:

Feldman, Jacob (2007). A ratio ergodic theorem for commuting, conservative, invertible transformations with quasi-invariant measure summed over symmetric...

Ichiro Satake

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

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PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Symmetric spaces, Automorphic functions

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Satake, Ichiro (2001). Compactifications, old and new [translation of Sugaku 51 (1999), no. 2, 129--141; MR1699694 (2000j:32035)]. Sugaku Expositions 14 No.2, 175-189...

Thomas Wolff

JOB TITLE: Professor

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Harmonic analysis

Obituary: http://www.math.caltech.edu/wolffobit.html
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolff

Joseph A. Wolf

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Lie groups, Functional analysis, Riemannian geometry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Wolf, Joseph A. (2007). Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 142. American Mathematical Society Providence, RI xvi+387. [...

Paul R. Chernoff

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Functional analysis, Operator theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Chernoff, Paul R. and Waterhouse, William C. (2001). Local compactness of Hom(-,H). Arch. Math. (Basel...

William P. Thurston

JOB TITLE: Professor

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematics

Obituary: http://www.ams.org/notices/201511/rnoti-p1318.pdf
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thurston

R. Sherman Lehman

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number theory, Numerical analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

R. Sherman Lehman. Factoring large integers. Math. Comp., 28:637-646, 1974. R. Sherman Lehman. On the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3), 20:303-320, 1970. R. Sherman Lehman. Separation of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Math. Comp., 20:523-...