Alan Weinstein
American mathematician (born 1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the American historian, educator, and federal official, see Allen Weinstein.
Alan David Weinstein (born 17 June 1943) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry.
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Born | June 17, 1943 (1943-06-17) (age 80) New York, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Marsden-Weinstein quotient Weinstein conjecture |
Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship, 1971 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Thesis | The Cut Locus and Conjugate Locus of a Riemannian Manifold (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | Shiing-Shen Chern |
Doctoral students | Theodore Courant Viktor Ginzburg Steve Omohundro Steven Zelditch Oh Yong-Geun |
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