Peter Trapa

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Peter Engel Trapa is an American mathematician and the dean of the College of Science at the University of Utah.[1] His research focus is on the representation theory of reductive Lie groups.[2] Trapa received his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and integrated science from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] While at MIT, Trapa studied representation theory with David Vogan.[4] He completed postdoctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and Harvard University.

Peter Trapa
Born1974
AwardsFellow of the AMS
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics Lie Groups

Career and Research[edit]

Trapa currently serves as the dean of the College of Science at the University of Utah.[1] He previously served as the chair of the Department of Mathematics and the chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy.[1]

Trapa works on unitary representations of Lie groups, and is a member of the Atlas of Lie Groups project.[5] With Jeffrey Adams, Marc van Leuuwen, and David Vogan, he devised an algorithm to compute the unitary dual of a real reductive group. He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2019.[6]  

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Peter Trapa selected as new dean of the College of Science | UNews". unews.utah.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations". www.liegroups.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Peter E. Trapa - Bio". www.math.utah.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Web page for David Vogan". www-math.mit.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations". www.liegroups.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 11 May 2021.