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Romanian-American mathematician

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1953 · age 73
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Sorin Teodor Popa is a Romanian American mathematician working on Von Neumann algebras, C*-algebras, and ergodic theory. More recently he developed deformation-rigidity theory in von Neumann algebras.

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Awards 4

2013Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2009Ostrowski Prize
1995Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Sorin Teodor Popa is a Romanian American mathematician working on Von Neumann algebras, C*-algebras, and ergodic theory. More recently he developed deformation-rigidity theory in von Neumann algebras. He is a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the Takesaki Chair in Operator Algebras. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

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Born 1953 · age 73
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