Stephen Gelbart
{{Short description|American-Israeli mathematician}}
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| name = Stephen Samuel Gelbart
| native_name = סטיבן סמואל גלברט
| native_name_lang = he
| image = Steve Gelbart 1997 (re-scanned; headshot).jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|06|12}}
| birth_place = Syracuse, New York, USA
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = Weizmann Institute of Science
| alma_mater = Cornell University, Princeton University
| doctoral_advisor = Elias M. Stein
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Contributions to the Langlands program
| awards = Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
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Stephen Samuel Gelbart ({{Langx|he|סטיבן סמואל גלברט}}; born June 12, 1946) is an American-Israeli mathematician who holds the Nicki and J. Ira Harris Professorial Chair in mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.[http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~gelbar/cv.pdf Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2015-01-27. He was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013 "for contributions to the development and dissemination of the Langlands program."[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]
Biography
Gelbart was born in Syracuse, New York, son of the mathematician Abe Gelbart.{{MacTutor Biography|id=Gelbart|title=Abraham Markham Gelbart}} He graduated from Cornell University in 1967, and earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1970, with a dissertation on Fourier analysis supervised by Elias M. Stein.{{mathgenealogy|id=8337}} He returned to Cornell as an assistant professor in 1971, was promoted to full professor in 1980, moved to the Weizmann Institute in 1984, and was given his named chair in 1998. He was president of the Israel Mathematical Union from 1994 to 1996. His doctoral students include Erez Lapid.
Selected publications
=Articles=
- Harmonics on Stiefel manifolds and generalized Hankel transforms. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 78 (1972) 451–455. {{MR|0480872}}
- A theory of Stiefel harmonics. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 192 (1974) 29–50. {{MR|0425519}}
- An elementary introduction to the Langlands program. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1984) 177–219. {{MR|733692}}
- with Freydoon Shahidi: Boundedness of automorphic L-functions in vertical strips. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001) 79–107. {{MR|1800349}}
- with Stephen D. Miller: Riemann's zeta function and beyond. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004) 59–112. {{MR|2015450}}
=Books=
- {{cite book|title=Automorphic forms on adele groups|year=1975|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0691081565|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2xT3Zbzf1UC}}
- {{cite book|title=Weil's representation and the spectrum of the metaplectic group|year=1976|publisher=Springer|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540077992}}
- with Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro and Stephen Rallis: {{cite book|title=Explicit constructions of automorphic L-functions|year=1987}}
- with Freydoon Shahidi: {{cite book|title=Analytic properties of automorphic L-functions|year=1988|publisher=Academic Press}} {{cite book|title=later edition|publisher=Elsevier|year=2014|isbn=9781483261034|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1K3iBQAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite book|title=Lectures on the Arthur-Selberg trace formula|year=1996|publisher=American Mathematical Society|url=http://bookstore.ams.org/ulect-9}}
=as editor=
- with Joseph Bernstein as editor and 6 contributing authors: {{cite book|author=Bump, D.; Cogdell, J.W.; de Shalit, E.; Gaitsgory, D.; Kowalski, E.; Kudla, S. S.|editor=Bernstein, J.|editor2=Gelbart, S.|title=An Introduction to the Langlands Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3XR0ljIV6YC|date=20 May 2003|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-8176-3211-3}}{{cite journal|last1=Harris|first1=Michael|authorlink=Michael Harris (mathematician)|title=Book Review: Introduction to the Langlands program|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=41|issue=2|year=2004|pages=257–266|issn=0273-0979|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01007-9|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~gelbar/ Home page]
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