Gan Wee Teck Explained
Gan Wee Teck (; born 11 March 1972) is a Malaysian mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is known for his work on automorphic forms and representation theory in the context of the Langlands program, especially the theory of theta correspondence, the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture and the Langlands program for Brylinski–Deligne covering groups.
Biography
Though born in Malaysia, Gan grew up in Singapore and attended Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, the Chinese High School, and Hwa Chong Junior College. He did his undergraduate studies at Churchill College, Cambridge University, followed by graduate studies at Harvard University, working under Benedict Gross and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1998. He was subsequently a faculty member at Princeton University (1998–2003) and University of California, San Diego (2003–2010) before moving to the National University of Singapore in 2010.
Contributions
With his collaborators, Gan has resolved several basic problems in the theory of theta correspondence (or Howe correspondence), such as the Howe duality conjecture and the Siegel–Weil formula. He has also made contributions to the Gross–Prasad conjecture, the local Langlands correspondence and the representation theory of metaplectic groups.
Selected works
- Book: Gan . Wee Teck . Gross . Benedict H. . Prasad . Dipendra . Sur les conjectures de Gross et Prasad . Astérisque (Societé mathématique de France) . Paris . 2012 . 978-2-85629-348-5 . 827954844 . Symplectic local root numbers, central critical L-values, and restriction problems in the representation theory of classical groups. 1-109.
- Book: Gan . Wee Teck . Li . Wen-Wei . Simons Symposia . The Shimura–Waldspurger Correspondence for Mp(2n) . Springer International Publishing . Cham . 2018 . 978-3-319-94832-4 . 2365-9564 . 10.1007/978-3-319-94833-1_6. 1612.05008 . 119602159.
- Gan . Wee Teck . Takeda . Shuichiro . A proof of the Howe duality conjecture . Journal of the American Mathematical Society . American Mathematical Society (AMS) . 29 . 2 . 13 July 2015 . 0894-0347 . 10.1090/jams/839 . 473–493. 942882 . free . 1407.1995 .
- Gan . Wee Teck . Ichino . Atsushi . Formal degrees and local theta correspondence . Inventiones Mathematicae . Springer Science and Business Media LLC . 195 . 3 . 26 March 2013 . 0020-9910 . 10.1007/s00222-013-0460-5 . 509–672. 253740793 .
- Gan . Wee Teck . Savin . Gordan . Representations of metaplectic groups I: epsilon dichotomy and local Langlands correspondence . Compositio Mathematica . Wiley . 148 . 6 . 31 October 2012 . 0010-437X . 10.1112/s0010437x12000486 . 1655–1694. 17621652 . free .
- Gan . Wee Teck . Qiu . Yannan . Takeda . Shuichiro . The regularized Siegel–Weil formula (the second term identity) and the Rallis inner product formula . Inventiones Mathematicae . Springer Science and Business Media LLC . 198 . 3 . 29 March 2014 . 0020-9910 . 10.1007/s00222-014-0509-0 . 739–831. 1207.4709 . 2014InMat.198..739G . 253737500 .
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Awards and honours
- Senior Wrangler, University of Cambridge (1994)
- American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship (2002–2003)[2]
- Sloan Research Fellowship (Math, 2003)[3]
- Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2014 (Number Theory section)[4]
- President's Science Award 2017, Singapore[5]
- Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (2018)[6]
Notes and References
- Web site: CITATIONS OF WINNERS .
- Web site: Centennial Fellowships, American Mathematical Society.
- Web site: Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Web site: ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers.
- Web site: Singapore honors top scientists. 14 November 2017 .
- Web site: Fellows of SNAS.
