Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport ( born October 2, 1948 in Cincinnati ) is a mathematician.

Life and work

He was born born as the son of Samuel Mitja Rapoport biochemist and the pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport Syllm, his brother is acting at Harvard University biochemist Tom Rapoport. The family lived first in the U.S. and then because of the political beliefs of his parents in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Rapoport attended the EOS mathematical direction " Heinrich Hertz" in Adlershof, where in 1967 the Abitur. Since he had Austrian citizenship on the basis of the origin of his father and this did not give up on reaching the age of majority, he was able to study in the West. He graduated in 1967 studying mathematics in Berlin, Paris, Princeton and Harvard, and his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Paris -Sud in Pierre Deligne.

From 1976 to 1980 he was assistant Rapoport at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1982 he was professor at Heidelberg, in 1986 in Bonn, then in 1989 in Wuppertal and from 1996 at the University of Cologne. Since 2003 he is Professor of arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn.

He is best known for his work on Shimura varieties and the proof of the Langlands conjecture for local function body (along with Gérard Laumon and Ulrich Stuhler ) in " - elliptic sheaves and the Langlands correspondence. " For 1992, he was together with Christopher Deninger, Peter Schneider and Thomas Zink awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ( non- archimedean period domains). In 1999 he received the Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Prize. In 2003, he was inducted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In addition, he was awarded the Heinz Hopf Prize 2011, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize for 2013 was awarded to him.

Writings

• With P. Deligne: Les schémas de modules de courbes elliptiques. Modular functions of one variable, II ( Proc. Internat. Summer School, Antwerp Univ., Antwerp, 1972), pp. 143-316. Lecture Notes in Math, Vol 349, Springer, Berlin, 1973.
• With A. Ash, D. Mumford, Y.Tai: Smooth compactification of locally symmetric varieties. Lie Groups: History, Frontiers and Applications, Vol IV Math Sci. Press, Brookline, Mass.. , 1975. Iv 335 pp.
• With zinc T.: On the local zeta function of Shimura varieties. Monodromiefiltration and vanishing cycles in unequal characteristic. Invent. Math 68 (1982 ), no 1, 21-101
• With G. Laumon, U. Stuhler: - elliptic sheaves and the Langlands correspondence. Invent. Math 113 (1993), no 2, 217-338.
• Non- Archimedean period domains. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol 1, 2 ( Zurich, 1994), 423-434, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1995.
• With T. Zinc: Period spaces for- divisible groups. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 141 Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996. Xxii 324 pp.