Sorin Popa
UCLA Mathematics Department,
Education
B.S., University of
Bucharest, 1976; M.S., University of Bucharest, 1977
Ph.D., University of Bucharest,
1983
Positions
Professor,
UCLA Department of Mathematics, 1987-present (Chair
2009-2012)
Professor, University of
Geneva, 1996-1998
Principal Researcher,
INCREST, 1977-87
Sabbaticals and Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor
Institut de Mathematique de Jussieu and CNRS, July
2012-September 2013
Visiting Professor at
Institut Henri Poincare (under Chaire Blaise Pascal), April-July
2011
Visiting Professor,
College de France and CNRS, 2004-2005
Mathematical Sciences
Research Institute Yearlong Member 2000-2001
Visiting Professor,
University of Paris 6 and 7, 1992, 1995-1996, Summer 2001
Visiting Professor, E.
Schroedinger Institute, Viena, Austria, Summer 1994
Institut des hautes Etudes
Scientifiques Yearlong Member 1991-1992
Visiting Professor,
Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, June 1989, Spring
1990
Grants 1995-present
NSF Grant
DMS-1101718: Deformation and
Rigidity for Groups, Actions, and von Neumann algebras
NSF Grant
DMS-0100883, 2001-2006; NSF Grant DMS-0605456, 2006-2011
Fond National Suisse
Grant, 1996-1998; NSF Grant DMS-9500882, 1995-1998; NSF Grant
DMS-9801324, 1998-2001
Honors, special recognition,
etc
Takagi Lecture May 2013
Fellow of the
American Math Society 2012
Simons Fellow
in Mathematics 2012-2013
E. H.
Moore Research Article Prize 2010 (of the American
Math Society)
Ostrowski Prize 2009
Chaire Blaise
Pascal 2009
Plenary Speaker
Canadian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Dec 2008
Bourbaki Seminar
given by S. Vaes on items [57,64,70,73] of my Publications, June 2007
Plenary Speaker
International Congress of Mathematics,
College de France Medal and Special
Lecture Series, Nov. 2004
Plenary Speaker AMS
Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Oct. 2004
Bourbaki Seminar given by A. Connes on item [58] of my Publications, June 2003
Invited Address Joint
Annual AMS Meeting, San Antonio, Jan. 1999
Top 250 most cited mathematicians in Thompson Reuters
(http://highlycited.com/categories/mathematics) 1999 - present
Guggenheim Fellow,
1995-1996
CBMS Lecture Series
``Classification of subfactors and related topics", Univ. of
Oregon 1993
Invited Address Section 9
International Congress of Mathematics, Kyoto, Japan ,
1990.
The
Simion Stoilov Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, 1981
Ph.D. Graduates
Dietmar Bisch
(1991) Professor Vanderbilt University
Florin Radulescu (1991)
Professor University of Rome 2
Florin Boca (1993)
Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tullio Ceccherini (1994)
Professor University of Benevento, Italy
Mihai Petrescu (1997)
Video-Software Company, Philadelphia.
Remus Nicoara (2004)
Tenure track at University of Tennessee Knoxville
Roman Sasyk (2004)
Associate Professor University of Buenos Aires
Jesse Peterson (2006)
NSF Fellowship UC Berkeley 2006-2008, tenure track Vanderbilt
Univ. 2008, Sloan Fellow 2009.
Adrian Ioana (2007)
Clay Fellowship 2007-2011, tenure track UCSD 2011
Ionut Chifan
(2009) Post Doc Vanderbilt Univ. 2009-2011, tenure track
Univ. of Iowa 2011.
Hiroki Sako (2009;
jointly with Yasu Kawahigashi) Post Doc Tokyo University
Adam Winchester
(2012) Software Company Los Angeles
Owen Sizemore (2012)
Post Doc University of Wisconsin, Madison
Current students:
Brian Leary, Alin Galatan, Adreas Aaselrud.
Recent
Professional Service
Coorganiser (with Damien Gaboriau and Stefaan Vaes)
of the program Von
Neumann algebras and ergodic theory of group actions,
April
18 - July 9, 2011, Institut Henri Poincare in Paris.
Coorganizer (with A. Ioana, N. Ozawa, Y. Shalom) of
the Special Session ``von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory'',
AMS
Meeting, UCLA Oct 10-12, 2010.
Coorganizer of the UCLA Workshop ``von Neumann Algebras and
Ergodic Theory'', March 2009.
Coorganizer of the Oberwolfach Conference in ``von Neumann
Algebras and Ergodic Theory'', Oct. 26-30, 2008.
Coorganizer of the Fields Institute Workshop in ``von Neumann
Algebras'', Oct 29-Nov 2, 2007.
Coorganizer of the UCLA Workshop ``von Neumann Algebras and
Ergodic Theory'', March 2007.
Coorganizer of the UCLA Conference ``Beyond Amenability: Groups,
Actions and Op. Alg. '', May 2006
Coorganizer of the AMS Section Meeting ``von Neumann
Algebras'', Vanderbilt Univ., October 2004
Coorganizer of the UCLA Conference ``von Neumann Algebras and
Ergodic Theory'', May 2003
Editor: Pacific Journal of Mathematics,
Editorial Board: Journal of the American Mathematical
Society, Journal of Operator Theory, Annali dell'Universita di
Ferrara,
Revue Roumaine de Math. Pures et Appl., PanAmerican
Mathematical Journal
Co-Editor of the Clay Math Institute Proceedings
``Non-commutative Geometry'', April 2007 Conference in honour of
A. Connes.
Panel Committees for ICM 2010 and NSF 2009-2012
Selected Recent Talks
Invited Speaker ``von Neumann algebras and measurable group
theory'', Leuven University, July 1-4, 2013.
Invited Speaker ``Math
Physics and Operator Algebra'', University of Milano,
December 2012.
Invited Speaker ``10 years
anniversary of Journal of Inst Math Jussieu'', November
2012.
Invited Speaker ``Interactions
Between Ergodic Theory, Number Theory and Noncommutative
Geometry'' Conference at Ohio State University, May 2012.
Colloquium Lecture UC
San Diego, April 2012.
Invited speaker ``von
Neumann
Algebras and Related Topics'' conference at RIMS (Kyoto,
Japan), Jan 2012.
Chaire Blaise Pascal
Closing Conference, Institut Math Jussieu, Oct
2011
Colloquium Lecture
University of Rome II (Italy), June 2011
Lecture Series at the
Program von Neumann Algebras
and Ergodic Theory of Group Actions,
Institut Henri Poincare May 2011
Mini Course at the Spring Institute
Non-Commutative Geometry and
operator Algebras, Vanderbilt Univ. May 2010
Invited Speaker
``Operator Algebras Conference in Honor of Uffe Haagerup's
60the birthday'', Coopenhagen April 2010.
Colloquium
Lecture
Invited Speaker
SUMIRFAS Conference,
Invited Speaker ``Non-commutative
Geometry'' Coference in Honor
of
Ricu Moscovici 65th Birthday, Max Planck Institute,
Main Speaker ``East
Coast
Operator
Algebra'' meeting,
Invited Speaker ``Operator
Algebras'', Oberwolfach Aug 2008.
Invited Speaker ``Geometry,
Rigidity
and
Group Actions'', Conference in Honor
of
Bob Zimmer 60'th Bithday, Sept. 6-9, 2007,
Invited Speaker ``von
Neumann
Algebras
and Non-Commutative Geometry'', Coference
in
Honor of Alain Connes 60'th Bithday, April 2-6, 2007, Inst
Henri Poincare (Paris)
Invited Speaker ``Groupoids
in
Oper.
Institut
Henri Poincare (
Invited Speaker
``US-Japan Conference in Operator Algebras'',
Invited Speaker
``von Neumann algebras''
Invited Speaker
``Logic and Mathematics''
Invited Speaker
``Geom. and prob. methods in group theory and dyn. sys.''
Main Speaker ``East
Coast Operator Algebra'' Conference,
Invited Speaker ``Operator
Algebra'' Conference, Oberwolfach (
Invited Lecture ``Group
actions,
rigidity
and dynamics'',
Minicourse Lecturer, ``Spring
Institute
on
Noncommutative Geometry'',
Main Speaker, ``Geometric
Group Theory and Harmonic Analysis'', Cortona, June 2004
Colloquium Lecture
Main Speaker, School in ``von
Neumann Algebras'', Marseille, February 2004
Main Speaker: ``Group
Theory'',