Name Marc Rieffel Alma mater Columbia University | Doctoral advisor Richard Kadison | |
Fields C*-algebra
Quantum group Institutions University of California, Berkeley Institution University of California, Berkeley Books Deformation Quantization for Actions of R ]D Doctoral students Ruy Exel, Philip Palmer Green, Jonathan Rosenberg |
Marc Aristide Rieffel is a mathematician noted for his fundamental contributions to C*-algebra and quantum group theory. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1963 under Richard Kadison with a dissertation entitled A Characterization of Commutative Group Algebras and Measure Algebras and is currently a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2012, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
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