Alexander Volberg

Alexander Volberg (Russian Александр Львович Вольберг; born March 6, 1956 in Leningrad ) is a Russian- American mathematician.

Volberg in 1981 received his doctorate in Leningrad with Nikolai Nikolski the Steklov Institute ( Completeness of rationale in weighted spaces ). He is since 1991 Professor (currently Distinguished University Professor ) at Michigan State University. 2007/2008 he was Edmund Whittaker professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was also a visiting professor at MSRI, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, the University of Bordeaux, Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study ( 2004), Caltech (1997, 2001), the IPAM UCLA and the University of Paris VI.

It deals with singular integrals, complex analysis, harmonic analysis and operator theory.

In 1988 he received the Salem Prize and in 2005 was Lars Onsager Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In 1990 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Kyoto ( Asymptotically holomorphic functions and Their Use in analysis).