Israel Michael Sigal FRSC (born 31 August 1945 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR) is a Canadian mathematician specializing in mathematical physics.[1] He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.
Israel Michael Sigal | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 August 1945 |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Tel-Aviv University |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998) Fellow of American Mathematical Society (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Doctoral students | Izabella Łaba Michael Loss |
He was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto—1990[2] and in International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Lausanne—1979, W. Berlin—1981, Marseille—1986.
Education
editBorn in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR,[1] Sigal obtained his bachelor's degree at Gorky University and his Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University[3]
Research interests
editPartial differential equation of quantum physics, Quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, Quantum field theory, Statistical mechanics, Non-linear equations, Mathematical biology, Pattern recognition[4]
Awards
edit- The Jeffrey-Williams Lectureship, CMS Summer Meeting, 1992.[5]
- John L. Synge Award, 1993.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1993.
- University Professor, 1997.
- Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics, 1998.
- CRM-Fields-PIMS prize,[6] 2000.
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[7]
Selected works
edit- Mathematical foundations of quantum scattering theory for multiparticle systems. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 1978. MR 0508478.
- Sigal, I. M. (1982). "Mathematical theory of single channel systems. Analyticity of scattering matrix". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 270 (2): 409–437. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1982-0645323-x. MR 0645323.
- Scattering theory for many body quantum-mechanical systems: rigorous results. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1011. Springer Verlag. 1983.
- Bach, V.; Fröhlich, J.; Sigal, I. M. (1995). "Mathematical theory of nonrelativistic matter and radiation". Lett. Math. Phys. 34 (3): 183–201. Bibcode:1995LMaPh..34..183B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.52.2248. doi:10.1007/bf01872776. S2CID 17664339.
- with Peter D. Hislop: Introduction to spectral theory: with applications to Schrödinger operators. Springer Verlag. 1996.
- with F. Ting: Sigal, I. M.; Ting, F. (2005). "Pinning of magnetic vortices by an external potential". St. Petersburg Math. J. 16 (1): 211–236. doi:10.1090/s1061-0022-04-00848-9. MR 2069485.
- with Stephen J. Gustafson: Mathematical concepts of quantum mechanics (2nd ed.). Springer Verlag. 2011.
References
edit- ^ a b Elizabeth Lumley (2001). Canadian Who's Who 2001: Volume 36. University of Toronto Press.
- ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". Archived from the original on 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
- ^ Bio
- ^ Home page of I.M.Sigal
- ^ The Jeffrey-Williams Lectureship
- ^ CRM/Fields Institute Prize
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-20.
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