Stefaan Vaes (born February 29, 1976 in
Herentals
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,
Belgium
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) is a Belgian mathematician.
Vaes studied mathematics at the
KU Leuven
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with a diploma in 1998 and a PhD in 2001 with thesis advisor Alfons Van Daele and thesis Locally Compact Quantum Groups. As a postdoc he was from 1998 to 2002 at KU Leuven and from 1998 to 2002 in Paris, where he did research for
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
. In 2002 he began part-time teaching at the KU Leuven, where he became an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2009.
He was a visiting professor in 2009 at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
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(Paris VI) and in 2011 at
Paris Diderot University
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(Paris VII) (where he habilitated in 2004). In 2005 he held the ''Peccot Chair'' at the
Collège de France
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.
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His research deals with ]Von Neumann algebra
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Von Neumann algeb ...
s and quantum group
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s.
In 2010, Vaes was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Rigidity for von Neumann algebras and their invariants'' at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in Hyderabad
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.arXiv preprint
/ref> In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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. In 2015 he received the Francqui Prize
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.
His doctoral students include Cyril Houdayer.
Selected references
* with Johan Kustermans: Locally Compact Quantum Groups, Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, vol. 33, 2000, pp. 837–934
* with J. Kustermans: Locally compact quantum groups in the von Neumann algebraic setting, Mathematica Scandinavica, Vol. 92, 2003, pp. 68–92
* with J. Kustermans: The operator algebra approach to quantum groups, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, 2000, 547–552
* with Adrian Ioana and Sorin Popa
Sorin Teodor Popa (24 March 1953) is a Romanian American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Popa earned his PhD from the University of Bucharest in 1983 under the s ...
: A class of superrigid group by Neumann algebras, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 178, 2013, pp. 231–286
* with Sorin Popa: Group measure space decomposition of factors and W*-superrigidity, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 182, 2010, pp. 371–417.
See also
*Locally compact quantum group In mathematics and theoretical physics, a locally compact quantum group is a relatively new C*-algebraic approach toward quantum groups that generalizes the Kac algebra, compact-quantum-group and Hopf-algebra approaches. Earlier attempts at a u ...
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20th-century Belgian mathematicians
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1976 births
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