Paul Balmer

Paul Balmer
Born 1970 (age 47–48)
Nationality Swiss
Alma mater University of Lausanne
Awards Humboldt Prize
Scientific career
Fields Algebra
Institutions UCLA
Thesis Groupes de Witt dérivés des schémas (1998)
Doctoral advisor Manuel Ojanguren
Website www.math.ucla.edu/~balmer

Paul Balmer (born 1970) is a Swiss mathematician, working in algebra. He is a professor of mathematics at UCLA.[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 a Humboldt Prize in 2015.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.math.ucla.edu/~balmer/
  2. ↑ Paul Balmer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Balmer, P. (2010). "Tensor triangular geometry". Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (PDF). pp. 85–112.
  4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  5. ↑ https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-award.html
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