James Arthur (mathematician)

James Greig Arthur ( born May 18, 1944 in Hamilton, Canada ) is a Canadian mathematician who has created the generalization of the Selberg trace formula to arbitrary semisimple groups one of the most important tools for tracking the Langlands program.

Arthur studied at the University of Toronto and received his PhD in 1970 at Robert Langlands at Yale (Analysis of tempered distributions of semisimple Lie groups of real rank 1 ), taught as an instructor at Princeton University, was an assistant professor at Yale University, was a professor at the Duke University in the 1970s and was a professor at the University of Toronto since 1978. 1976/77 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( Towards a stable trace formula ) and 1983 in Warsaw (The trace formula for noncompact quotient ). 1976/77 he was a Sloan Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), the Royal Society of Canada (1980 ) and the Royal Society (1992). 1975 to 1977 he was a Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow ( 2000). He became an honorary doctorate from the University Ottawa, 2002. In 1998 he had the Aisenstadt Chair on CRM at the University of Montreal, 2001, he held the Whittmore Lectures at Yale University and in 1993 he was Jeffrey Williams Lecturer of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

In 1999 he received the Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, 1987 Synge Award of the Royal Society of Canada and the 1997 CRM -Fields - PIMS Prize. In 1982 he was EWR Steacie Fellow and in 1999 he received the Faculty Award of Excellence at the University of Toronto.

In 2003 he received the G. de B. Robinson Award A note on the automorphic Langlands group, in which he received automorphic forms on a conjecture of Langlands on the existence of an extension of the universal Galois group in the theory and presents a possible candidate for this group and at the same time a candidate for complexification of Grothendieck 's motivic Galois group.

He was selected as Plenarsprecher at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 in Seoul.