Charles Robin Graham is professor emeritus of mathematics at the

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, known for a number of contributions to the field of conformal geometry and

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; his collaboration with Charles Fefferman on the ambient construction has been particularly widely cited. The GJMS operators are, in part, named for him. He is a 2012 Fellow of the

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. Graham received his Ph.D. from

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in 1981, under the direction of

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Major publications

* Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. ''Conformal invariants.'' The mathematical heritage of Élie Cartan (Lyon, 1984). Astérisque 1985, Numéro Hors Série, 95–116. * Graham, C. Robin; Jenne, Ralph; Mason, Lionel J.; Sparling, George A.J. ''Conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian. I. Existence.'' J. London Math. Soc. (2) 46 (1992), no. 3, 557–565. * Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. ''The Ambient Metric''. Annals of Mathematics Studies 178, Princeton University Press, 2012.Reviews of ''The Ambient Metric'': Andreas Cap, ; Michael G. Eastwood, ; Michael G. Eastwood, ''Bull. AMS'', ; Rod Gover, ''SIAM Rev.'',

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