Antony Wassermann

Antony John Wassermann is a British mathematician working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory, the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.

Biography

Wassermann was born in 1957. He is the son of the quantum physicist Gerhard Dietrich Wassermann and the brother of the mathematician Alexander Simon Wassermann. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg. Afterwards, he was Directeur de Recherches CNRS at Aix-Marseille University from 1999 to 2013.

Honours

Bronze medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 1974.
Miller Research Fellowship recipient in 1986–88.
Winner of the Whitehead Prize in 1990.
Invited speaker, International Congresses of Mathematicians, 1994, Zürich.

Selected bibliography

Operator algebras and conformal field theory. III. Fusion of positive energy representations of LSU using bounded operators. Invent. Math. 133, no. 3, 467–538, 1998. Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2, 966–979, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995. Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. I. General theory. Ann. of Math. 130, no. 2, 273–319, 1989. Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. III. Classification for SU. Invent. Math. 93, no. 2, 309–354, 1988. Une démonstration de la conjecture de Connes–Kasparov pour les groupes de Lie linéaires connexes réductifs, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 304, no. 18, 559–562, 1987.