Peter Engel Trapa is an American mathematician and the dean of the College of Science and College of Mines and Earth Sciences 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 | |
| Birth Date: | 1974 |
| Fields: | MathematicsLie Groups |
| Awards: | Fellow of the AMS |
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]