Paul Balmer

Paul Balmer
Born1970 (age 54–55)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Lausanne
AwardsHumboldt Prize
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebra
InstitutionsUCLA
Thesis Groupes de Witt dérivés des schémas  (1998)
Doctoral advisorManuel Ojanguren
Websitewww.math.ucla.edu/~balmer

Paul Balmer (born 1970) is a Swiss mathematician, working in algebra. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

Balmer received his Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne in 1998, under the supervision of Manuel Ojanguren, with a thesis entitled Groupes de Witt dérivés des Schémas (in French).[2]

His research centers around triangulated categories. More specifically, he is a proponent of tensor-triangular geometry, an umbrella topic which covers geometric aspects of algebraic geometry, modular representation theory, stable homotopy theory, and other areas, by means of relevant tensor-triangulated categories.

Balmer was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010, with a talk on Tensor Triangular Geometry.[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 2015.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Home page".
  2. ^ Paul Balmer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Balmer, Paul (2010). "Tensor triangular geometry". Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (PDF). pp. 85–112. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  4. ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society".
  5. ^ "Humboldt Research Award".