David Vogan

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|8 September 1954}}

| birth_place = Mercer, Pennsylvania

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| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| alma_mater = The University of Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| thesis_title = Lie algebra cohomology and the representations of semisimple Lie groups

| thesis_year = 1976

| doctoral_advisor = Bertram Kostant

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• Jing-Song Huang
• Monica Nevins
• Peter Trapa{{cite web |last1=Vogan |first1=David |title=CURRICULUM VITAE: David A. Vogan, Jr. |url=https://math.mit.edu/~dav/vita16.pd |website=MIT Maths: Vita16 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716153646/https://math.mit.edu/~dav/vita16.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2021 |page=5}}

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| known_for = Lusztig-Vogan polynomials
Vogan diagram
Minimal K-type
Vogan's conjecture for Dirac cohomology
Signature character

| awards = Levi L. Conant Prize (2011)

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David Alexander Vogan Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups.

While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow in 1972.{{cite web|title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=Mathematical Association of America|access-date=December 13, 2021}} He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1976, under the supervision of Bertram Kostant.{{MathGenealogy|id=37052}} In his thesis, he introduced the notion of lowest K type in the course of obtaining

an algebraic classification of irreducible Harish Chandra modules. He is currently one of the participants in the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations.

Vogan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.[https://www.amacad.org/peerCollaboration/profile.aspx?c=psa&q=vogan American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member Directory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201100040/https://www.amacad.org/peerCollaboration/profile.aspx?c=psa&q=vogan |date=2017-12-01 }}, retrieved 2017-11-20. He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1999 to 2004.{{cite web|title=David Vogan|publisher=MIT|work=Mathematics Department Faculty|url=https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2022-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915210515/https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286|url-status=dead}}

In 2012 he became Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-08-29. He was president of the AMS in 2013–2014.[https://www.ams.org/about-us/presidents/62-vogan David A. Vogan, Jr. (1954 - ), AMS Presidents: A Timeline] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2518429.html National Academy of Sciences Member Directory], retrieved 2017-09-01.

He was the Norbert Wiener Chair of Mathematics at MIT until his retirement in 2020, and is currently the Norbert Wiener Emeritus Professor of Mathematics.{{cite web |last1=Department of Mathematics |first1=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |title=Directory: David Vogan MIT Mathematics |url=https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286 |website=math.mit.edu |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415155546/https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=286 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |quote=He retired from MIT as Emeritus Professor July 2020}}