David Vogan Explained

David Vogan
Birth Place:Mercer, Pennsylvania
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma Mater:The University of Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title:Lie algebra cohomology and the representations of semisimple Lie groups
Thesis Year:1976
Doctoral Advisor:Bertram Kostant
Doctoral Students:
Known For:Lusztig-Vogan polynomials
Vogan diagram
Minimal K-type
Vogan's conjecture for Dirac cohomology
Signature character
Awards:Levi L. Conant Prize (2011)

David Alexander Vogan Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups.

While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow in 1972.[2] He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1976, under the supervision of Bertram Kostant. In his thesis, he introduced the notion of lowest K type in the course of obtainingan algebraic classification of irreducible Harish Chandra modules. He is currently one of the participants in the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations.

Vogan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.[3] He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1999 to 2004.[4] In 2012 he became Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5] He was president of the AMS in 2013–2014.[6] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[7] He was the Norbert Wiener Chair of Mathematics at MIT until his retirement in 2020, and is currently the Norbert Wiener Emeritus Professor of Mathematics.[8]

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  1. Web site: Vogan . David . CURRICULUM VITAE: David A. Vogan, Jr. . MIT Maths: Vita16 . Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics . 16 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210716153646/https://math.mit.edu/~dav/vita16.pdf . 16 July 2021 . 5.
  2. Web site: Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners . Mathematical Association of America. December 13, 2021.
  3. https://www.amacad.org/peerCollaboration/profile.aspx?c=psa&q=vogan American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member Directory
  4. Web site: David Vogan. MIT. Mathematics Department Faculty. 2020-02-17. 2022-09-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20220915210515/https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286. dead.
  5. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  6. https://www.ams.org/about-us/presidents/62-vogan David A. Vogan, Jr. (1954 -), AMS Presidents: A Timeline
  7. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2518429.html National Academy of Sciences Member Directory
  8. Web site: Department of Mathematics . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Directory: David Vogan MIT Mathematics . math.mit.edu . 16 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210415155546/https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286 . 15 April 2021 . He retired from MIT as Emeritus Professor July 2020.
  9. Springer, T. A. . T. A. Springer. Review: Representations of real reductive Lie groups, by David A. Vogan, jr. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. N.S.. 1983. 8. 2. 365–371. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1983-15126-1. free.
  10. Knapp, A. W. . Anthony W. Knapp. Review: Unitary representations of reductive Lie groups, by David A. Vogan, jr. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. N.S.. 1989. 21. 2. 380–384. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15872-2. free.