Past Senate Faculty

Oscar E. Lanford, III

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, mathematical computation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

A computer-assisted proof of the Feigenbaum conjectures", Bull.Am.Math.Soc.(...

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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...

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Lauren Williams

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Combinatorics, and connections to representation theory, geometry, and statistical physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Yuji Kodama and Lauren Williams (2011). KP solitons, total positivity, and cluster algebras. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . [abstract] [...

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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...

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Jack H. Silver

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

Obituary from the newsletter of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science:

It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Jack Howard Silver died on Thursday, December 22, 2016. Professor Silver was born in 1942 in Missoula, Montana. After earning his A.B. at Montana State University (now the University of...

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Ichiro Satake

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

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...

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Heinz O. Cordes

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Classical analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Cordes, Heinz Otto (2007). Precisely predictable Dirac observables. Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 154. Springer Dordrecht xx+268. [MR] [...

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Donald E. Sarason

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

Passed away Saturday, April 8, 2017 at his home in Berkeley in the loving care of his family. He was 84 years of age. A native of Detroit, Michigan, and long-time resident of Berkeley, he is survived by his wife of 27 years, Mary Jennings of Berkeley; son Benjamin Sarason of Chicago, Illinois; step-daughters Anne Marie Jennings of Dripping Springs, Texas, and Allison Jennings of Berkeley; step-sons Herbert Jennings of Berkeley, and Daniel Jennings of Houston, Texas; sisters Constance Grossman of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Judith...