We are very sad to report the sudden death of Professor Robert Coleman in the early morning on March 24, 2014, just a few months after his retirement and a few months short of his sixtieth birthday.

Professor Coleman was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1954. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979; he joined our department in 1983. His ground-...

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Rainer K. Sachs

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

Other Departments: Physics

Physics Dept., Remembering Rainer Sachs

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RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: (Through 1977:) Cosmology, gravitational waves, general relativity. (Since 1980:)...

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Paul R. Chernoff

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

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PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Functional analysis, Operator theory

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Chernoff, Paul R...

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Marina Ratner

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

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PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ergodic theory

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Ratner, Marina (1998). On the p-adic and S-arithmetic generalizations of Raghunathan's conjectures....

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Joseph A. Wolf

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School

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RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Lie groups, Functional analysis, Riemannian geometry

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Wolf, Joseph A. (2007). Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 142. American Mathematical Society Providence, RI xvi+387. [...