Dan-Virgil Voiculescu | |
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 (photo by George Bergman) | |
| Born | (1949-06-14)14 June 1949 (age 76) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Ciprian Foias |
| Doctoral students | Sorin Popa |
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Romanian pronunciation:[danvirˈd͡ʒilvojkuˈlesku]; born 14 June 1949) is aRomanian professor ofmathematics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. He has worked in singleoperator theory, operatorK-theory andvon Neumann algebras. More recently, he developedfree probability theory.
Voiculescu studied at theUniversity of Bucharest, receiving his PhD in 1977 under the direction ofCiprian Foias.[1] He was an assistant at the University of Bucharest (1972–1973), a researcher at theInstitute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (1973–1975), and a researcher atINCREST (1975–1986). He came to Berkeley in 1986 for theInternational Congress of Mathematicians, and stayed on as visiting professor. Voiculescu was appointed professor at Berkeley in 1987.
He received the 2004NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for “the theory of free probability, in particular, usingrandom matrices and a new concept ofentropy to solve several hitherto intractable problems in von Neumann algebras.”[2]
Voiculescu was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[3]
