Uffe Haagerup

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Uffe Haagerup
Fåborg, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Known forHaagerup property
Christensen–Haagerup principle
Haagerup tensor norm
Haagerup subfactor
Asaeda-Haagerup subfactor
The Haagerup list
AwardsSamuel Friedman Award
Ole Rømer Medal
Humboldt Research Award
European Research Council (Advanced Grant)
European Latsis Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Doctoral advisorGert K Pedersen

Uffe Valentin Haagerup (19 December 1949 – 5 July 2015) was a mathematician from Denmark.

Biography

Uffe Haagerup was born in

Fåborg where his family owned a cabin.[1]

Work

Uffe Haagerup's mathematical focus has been on the fields of operator algebra, group theory and geometry,[2] but his publications has a broad scope and also involves free probability theory and random matrices. He has participated in many international mathematical groups and networks from early on, and has worked as ordinary contributor and participator, organizer, lecturer and editor.

Following his appointment as professor at Odense, Haagerup got acquainted with

UCLA in Los Angeles. Jones inspired him to take up studies in and work on subfactor theory. Uffe Haagerup has done extensive work with fellow mathematician Alain Connes on Von Neumann algebra. His solution to the so-called "Champagne Problem",[3] secured him the Samuel Friedmann Award in April 1985, although it was first published in Acta Mathematica in 1987. Uffe considered this his best work. An early contact and collaboration was established with Swedish colleagues at the Mittag-Leffler Institute and the Norwegian group on operator algebra, where Uffe Haagerup has a long history of collaboration with Erling Størmer
for example.

In the mathematical literature, Uffe Haagerup is known for the Haagerup property, the Haagerup subfactor, the Asaeda-Haagerup subfactor and the Haagerup list.[4]

From 2000 to 2006 Uffe served as editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Mathematica. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He worked at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen from 2010 to 2014,[5] where he was involved in the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation (SYM), but was appointed professor of mathematics in 2015 at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.[6]

Prizes and honors

Uffe Haagerup received several awards and honours throughout his academic career. Amongst the most academically prestigious were the Danish Ole Rømer Medal, the international Humboldt Research Award and the European Latsis Prize.

  • 1985. The Samuel Friedman Award (
    UCLA
    and Copenhagen)
  • 1986. Invited speaker at ICM1986 (Berkeley)
  • 1989. The Ole Rømer Medal (Copenhagen).
    The Ole Rømer Medal (est. 1944) is a Danish medal awarded by the University of Copenhagen and the municipality of Copenhagen, for outstanding research. It is considered amongst the most honourable scientific awards in the country, established in commemoration of Ole Rømer on his 300th anniversary.
  • 2002. Plenary speaker at ICM2002 (Beijing)
  • 2007. Distinguished lecturer at the
    Fields Institute of Mathematical Research
    (Toronto)
  • 2008. The Humboldt Research Award (Münster)
  • 2010–2014 European Research Council Advanced Grant
  • 2012. Plenary speaker at International Congress on Mathematical Physics ICMP12 (Aalborg)
  • 2012. 14th European Latsis Prize from the European Science Foundation, ESF (Brussels)[7][8]
  • 2013. Honorary Doctorate from East China Normal University, ECNU (Shanghai)[9]

Works (selection)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Professor Uffe Haagerup". Department of Mathematical Sciences (University of Copenhagen). 10 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Uffe Haagerup". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  3. American Mathematical Monthly
    , Vol. 103, No. 10, Dec., 1996, pp. 879–887.
  4. S2CID 118665858
    .
  5. ^ "Curriculum Vitae (CV)". Copenhagen University.
  6. ^ "All publications". University of Southern Denmark. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Uffe Haagerup wins Latsis prize for operator algebra". University World News. 25 November 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  8. ^ See the European Science Foundation (ESF) announcement.
  9. ^ "Chinese honorary doctorate to Professor Uffe Haagerup". Department of Mathematical Sciences (University of Copenhagen). 25 June 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

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