Robert Kottwitz

Edward Robert Kottwitz (* 1950 in Lynn ( Massachusetts)) is an American mathematician.

Kottwitz studied at the University of Washington ( BA ) and Harvard University with Phillip Griffiths and John T. Tate, where he received his doctorate in 1977 ( orbital integral on). In 1976 he was assistant professor and later professor at the University of Washington and went in 1989 as a professor at the University of Chicago.

He was repeatedly at the Institute for Advanced Study (for example, 1976/77 ).

Kottwitz deals with the Langlands program, including harmonic analysis on p- adic Lie groups and automorphic forms and the general linear group and Shimura varieties.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 ( Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie p- adic algebras ).

Writings

• With James Arthur, David Ellwood (Editor): Harmonic analysis, the trace formula and Shimura varieties, Proc. Clay Mathematics Institute 2003 Summer School, The Fields Institute, Toronto, June 2003, AMS 2005
• With Diana Shelstad Foundations of Twisted Endoscopy, astérisque, 255, 1999