Education
Popa earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Bucharest in 1983 under the supervision of Dan-Virgil Voiculescu.
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Sorin Popa
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Career
He is a professor at University of California, Los Los Angeles He has advised 12 doctoral students at University of California, Los Angeles, including Adrian Ioana.
Achievements
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In 1990 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto (on "Subfactors and Classifications in von Neumann algebras"). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1995. In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Madrid (on "Deformation and Rigidity for group actions and Von Neumann Algebras"). In 2009 he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize. He is one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Membership
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Ostrowski Prize
The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every odd year for outstanding mathematical achievement judged by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands.The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every odd year for outstanding mathematical achievement judged by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands.