Antony Wassermann

Antony John Wassermann (born 1957) is a British mathematician working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory (providing several series of subfactors), the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.

Biography Wassermann was born in 1957. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and St John's College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Automorphic actions of compact groups on operator algebras". Afterwards, he was Directeur de Recherches of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Aix-Marseille University from 1999 to 2013.

Honours Bronze medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 1974. Miller Research Fellowship recipient in 1986–88. Winner of the Whitehead Prize in 1990.

Selected bibliography Operator algebras and conformal field theory. III. Fusion of positive energy representations of LSU(N) using bounded operators. Invent. Math. 133, no. 3, 467–538, 1998. MR1645078 Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zürich, 1994), 966–979, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995. MR1403996 Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. I. General theory. Ann. of Math. (2) 130, no. 2, 273–319, 1989. MR1014926 Ergodic actions of compact groups on operator algebras. III. Classification for SU(2). Invent. Math. 93, no. 2, 309–354, 1988. MR948104 Une démonstration de la conjecture de Connes–Kasparov pour les groupes de Lie linéaires connexes réductifs [A proof of the Connes–Kasparov conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups], C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 304, no. 18, 559–562, 1987. MR894996