Shmuel Weinberger
Professor
Department of Mathematics
The University of Chicago
United States of America
Biography
Education. 1982 Ph.D. Courant Institute of the Mathematical Sciences 1981 B.A. New York University Awards: 2013 Fellow American Academy for the Advancement of Science 2013 Fellow American Mathematical Society 1985 Sloan Foundation Fellowship 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award 1983 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship 1982 Friedrichs Prize (of Courant Institute) 1979 NSF Graduate Fellowship 1977 Westinghouse Science Talent Search (4th Place)
Research Interest
Most of my research concerns geometry and topology, broadly defined. I have been interested in manifolds, their range of possible metrics and their group actions, and in stratified spaces, homology manifolds, and their invariants, the large scale geometry of discrete groups and other natural large scale metric spaces such as spaces of Riemannian metrics. I am currently interested in spaces of discontinuous functions, processes on large networks, and their scientific applications. In short, my focus these days is on quantitative and applied topology.
Publications
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Taming three manifolds using scalar curvature. (with S.Chang and G.Yu) Geom. Ded, 148 (2010) 3-14
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Aspherical manifolds with hyperbolic fundamental group (with A.Barthels and W. Lueck) JDG 86(2010) 1-16.
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The intrinsic asymmetry and inhomogeneity of Teichmuller space, (with B.Farb) Duke Math. J, 155(2010) 91-103
