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Antony Wassermann at Berkeley in 1989

Antony John Wassermann, born on 13 February 1957, is a British mathematician, working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory, on the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum-Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.

He attended Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne from 1968 to 1974,[1] and received his Ph.D at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg (Automorphic actions of compact groups on operator algebras).[2][3]

He is affiliated to the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS), University of Cambridge.[4] He was Directeur de Recherches CNRS at Aix-Marseille University (France) from 1999 to 2013.[5]

He is the son of the quantum physicist Gerhard Dietrich Wassermann and the brother of the mathematician Alexander Simon Wassermann.

Honours

Selected bibliography

  • Operator algebras and conformal field theory. III. Fusion of positive energy representations of LSU(N) using bounded operators. Invent. Math. 133, no. 3, 467--538, 1998.
  • Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zürich, 1994), 966--979, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995.
  • Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. I. General theory. Ann. of Math. (2) 130, no. 2, 273--319, 1989.
  • Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. III. Classification for SU(2). Invent. Math. 93, no. 2, 309--354, 1988.
  • Une démonstration de la conjecture de Connes-Kasparov pour les groupes de Lie linéaires connexes réductifs [A proof of the Connes-Kasparov conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups], C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 304, no. 18, 559--562, 1987.


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