Joachim Cuntz
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Joachim Cuntz | |
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 Cuntz atOberwolfach,2012 | |
| Born | 28 September 1948 |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater | Bielefeld University(Ph.D., 1975) |
| Known for | Cuntz algebras |
| Awards | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize(1999) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Münster |
| Doctoral advisor | Horst Behncke |
| Doctoral students | Andreas Thom,Wilhelm Winter |
Joachim Cuntz(born 28 September 1948 inMannheim) is a Germanmathematician,currently a professor at theUniversity of Münster.
Work
[edit]Joachim Cuntz has made fundamental contributions to the area ofC*-algebrasand to the field ofnoncommutative geometryin the sense ofAlain Connes.He initiated the analysis of the structure of simple C*-algebras and introduced new methods and examples, including theCuntz algebrasand theCuntz semigroup.He was one of the first to applyK-theoryto noncommutative operator algebras and contributed to the development of that theory. In collaboration withDaniel Quillen,he developed a new approach tocyclic cohomologyand proved the excision property of periodic cyclic theory. In recent years, he has been working mainly on C*-algebras that are related to structures fromnumber theory.[1][2]
Joachim Cuntz had dozens of PhD students and research assistants, many of which are professors in mathematics today.[2]Among them are:
- Xin Li (PhD 2010, professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Glasgow)
- Ralf Meyer (PhD 1999, professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Göttingen)
- Andreas Thom(PhD 2003, professor of geometry at theTU Dresden)
- Christian Voigt (PhD 2003, professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Glasgow)
- Moritz Weber (PhD 2011, junior professor of mathematics atSaarland University)
- Wilhelm Winter(PhD 2000, professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Münster)
- Joachim Zacharias (PhD 1996, professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Glasgow)
Awards and honors
[edit]- 1990Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematiciansin Kyoto (Cyclic Cohomology and K-homology).
- Max Planck Research Award (together with G. Kasparov), 1993
- Medal of the Collège de France, 1997
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeof the DFG 1999,
- Honorary doctoratefrom theUniversity of Copenhagen
- ERC Advanced Investigators Grant, 2010
- Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society,2012[3]
References
[edit]- ^"Prof. Dr. Joachim Cuntz".Ath.uni-muenster.de. 2012-04-17.Retrieved2013-02-16.
- ^abJoachim Cuntzat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,retrieved 2013-02-16.
Further reading
[edit]- Cuntz, Joachim (2004).Cyclic Homology in Non-Commutative Geometry.Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.ISBN978-3-642-07337-3.OCLC851389519.
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