Greg Kuperberg

Greg Kuperberg (born July 4, 1967) is an American mathematician of Polish birth known for his contributions to geometric topology, quantum algebra, and combinatorics. Kuperberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis.Greg Kuperberg, " [http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/research/profiles/greg Greg Kuperberg] ", retrieved March 8, 2008.]

Biography

Kuperberg is the son of two mathematicians, Krystyna Kuperberg and Włodzimierz Kuperberg. He was born in Poland in 1967, but his family emigrated to Sweden in 1969 due to the 1968 Polish political crisis. In 1974, Kuperberg's family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Auburn, Alabama. Kuperberg wrote three computer games for the IBM Personal Computer in 1982 and 1983: Paratrooper, J-Bird and PC-Man. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1983 and received a bachelor's degree in 1987. [J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, " [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Kuperberg.html Krystyna M Trybulec Kuperberg] ", retrieved March 8, 2008; " [http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/wikipedia-article-hijacked-i-fear-i.html Wikipedia Article Hijacked] ", retrieved March 8, 2008; " [http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ptrooper.htm Paratrooper (DOS, 1982)] ", retrieved March 8, 2008.; Theory of Computing, " [http://www.theoryofcomputing.org/articles/main/v003/a007/about.html About the Authors] ", retrieved March 8, 2008.]

Upon leaving Harvard, Kuperberg studied at the University of California, Berkeley under Andrew Casson, receiving a Ph.D. in geometric topology and quantum algebra in 1991. From 1991 until 1992, Kuperberg was a NSF postdoctoral fellow and adjunct assistant professor at Berkeley, and from 1992 to 1995 held the Dickson Instructorship at the University of Chicago. From 1995 through 1996, Kuperberg was Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University after which he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of California, Davis. [Theory of Computing, " [http://www.theoryofcomputing.org/articles/main/v003/a007/about.html About the Authors] "; " [http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/news/archive/1996 Three Outstanding Mathematicians Join the Department] ", 1996, retrieved March 8, 2008.]

Kuperberg is married to physicist Rena Zieve, who is also a professor at UC Davis.

elected publications

Kuperberg has over fifty publications, including two in the prestigious "Annals of Mathematics".

* "The quantum G2 link invariant", Internat. J. Math. 5 (1994), no. 1, 61-85.

* "Non-involutory Hopf algebras and 3-manifold invariants", Duke Math. J. 84 (1996), 83-129.

* "Generalized counterexamples to the Seifert conjecture", Ann. of Math. (2) 144 (1996), no. 3, 547-576.

* "Symmetry classes of alternating-sign matrices under one roof", Ann. of Math. (2) 156 (2002), no. 3, 835-866.

* "A subexponential-time quantum algorithm for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem", [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/quant-ph/0302112 arXiv:0302112 (quant-ph)] .

* "Numerical cubature using error-correcting codes", [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.NA/0402047 arXiv:0402047 (math.NA)] .

References

External links

* [http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/ Greg Kuperberg] , faculty page at UC-Davis
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