Alan Weinstein
Alan Weinstein | |
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| Born | June 17, 1943 (age 82) New York, United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Weinstein conjecture Weinstein's neighbourhood theorem Weinstein's symplectic category Marsden–Weinstein quotient Courant algebroid Symplectic groupoid |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (1971) ICM Speaker (1978) 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 Yong-Geun Oh |
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.