Sorin Popa
       UCLA Mathematics Department, Box 951555
       Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
popa@math.ucla.edu

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   
        Professor, University of Geneva, 1996-1998
        Principal Researcher, INCREST, 1977-87


Sabbaticals and Visiting Positions

        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 No. 0605456, 2006-2011
        NSF Grant No. 0100883, 2001-2006
        NSF Grant No. 9801324, 1998-2001
        Fond National Suisse Grant, 1996-1998
        NSF Grant No. 9500882, 1995-1998


Honors, special recognitions, etc
   
        Chaire Blaise Pascal 2009
        Plenary Speaker Canadian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Dec 2008.
        Plenary Speaker International Congress of Mathematics, Madrid, Aug. 2006.
        College de France Lecture Series, Nov. 2004. 
        Plenary Speaker AMS Meeting, Vanderbilt University,  Oct. 2004
        Invited Address Joint Annual AMS Meeting, San Antonio, Jan. 1999
        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.
       

Ph.D. Graduates

        Dietmar Bisch (1991) Professor Vanderbilt University
        Florin Radulescu (1991) Professor University of Rome 2 and University of Iowa
        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 Post Doc Fellowship at UC Berkeley, tenure track Vanderbilt University, Sloan Fellow 2009.
        Adrian Ioana (2007) Taussky-Todd instructor Caltech  2007-2008, Clay Fellowship 2008-2011
        Ion Chifan (2009).
        Hiroki Sako (2009; jointly with Yasu Kawahigashi).
        Adam Winchester (2010).
        Owen Sizemore (2011).


Recent Professional Service

        Editor, Pacific Journal of Mathematics
        Editorial Board, Journal of the American Mathematical Society
        Editorial Board, Journal of Operator Theory
        Editorial Board, PanAmerican Mathematical Journal
        Co-Editor of the Clay Math Institute Proceedings of ``Non-commutative Geometry'' Conference
                   in honour of A. Connes, 2007.
        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'',
                  Spring 2007, Spring 2009.
        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


Recent Talks
  
        Main Speaker  ``East Coast Operator Algebra'' meeting, Penn State, Oct 2008.
        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, University of Chicago.
        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. Alg. and Noncommut. Geometry'' Conference,
               Institut Henri Poincare (Paris), February 2007.
        Invited Speaker  ``US-Japan Conference in Operator Algebras'', University of Hawai, January 2007.
        Colloquium Lecture Vanderbilt University, Nov. 2006.
        Invited Speaker  ``von Neumann algebras''  BIRS Center, Banff (Canada) Sept. 2006.
        Invited Speaker  ``Logic and Mathematics'' University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, June 9-11, 2006.
        Invited Speaker  ``Geom. and prob. methods in group theory  and dyn. sys.''  Texas A&M Nov. 2005.
        Main Speaker ``East Coast Operator Algebra'' Conference, University of Philadelphia, October 2005.
        Colloquium Lecture University of Rome 2, Tor Vergata, September 2005.  
        Invited Speaker ``Operator Algebra'' Conference, Oberwolfach (Germany), August 2005.
        Invited Lecture ``Group actions, rigidity and dynamics'', Banff (Canada) July  2005. 
        Minicourse Lecturer, ``Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry'', Vanderbilt Univ., May 2005
        Main Speaker, ``Geometric Group Theory and Harmonic Analysis'', Cortona, June 2004
        Colloquium Lecture University of California Riverside, April 2004.
        Main Speaker, School in ``von Neumann Algebras'', Marseille, February 2004
        Main Speaker: ``Group Theory'', Gaeta (Italy), June 2003
        Main Speaker: AMS Meeting, Operator Algebra Section, Baltimore, Jan. 2003       
        Main Speaker, GPOTS Conference, New Hampshire, 2001
        Invited Address, Mathematical Physics Conference, Sienna (Italy), July 2000

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