Michael Kapovich

Misha Kapovich, Oberwolfach 2015

Michael Kapovich (also Misha Kapovich, Михаил Эрикович Капович, transcription Mikhail Erikovich Kapovich, born 1963) is a Russian-American mathematician.

Kapovich was awarded a doctorate in 1988 at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk with thesis advisor Samuel Leibovich Krushkal and thesis "Плоские конформные структуры на 3-многообразиях" (Flat conformal structures on 3-manifolds, Russian lang. thesis).[1] Kapovich is now a professor at University of California, Davis, where he has been since 2003.

His research deals with low-dimensional geometry and topology, Kleinian groups, hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, geometric representation theory in Lie groups, spaces of nonpositive curvature [de], and configuration spaces of arrangements and mechanical linkages.[2][3]

in 2006 in Madrid he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians with talk Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications.[4]

He is married to mathematician Jennifer Schultens.[5] He has two brothers, both of whom are mathematicians as well: Ilya Kapovich works in group theory and geometric topology at CUNY, and Vitali Kapovich researches global Riemannian geometry at the University of Toronto.[6][7][2]

  1. ^ Michael Kapovich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b "Michael Kapovich". UC Davis Mathematics.
  3. ^ Kapovich, Michael; Millson, John J. (1999), Brylinski, Jean-Luc; Brylinski, Ranee; Nistor, Victor; Tsygan, Boris (eds.), "Moduli Spaces of Linkages and Arrangements", Advances in Geometry, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, pp. 237–270, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1770-1_11, ISBN 978-1-4612-1770-1, retrieved 2023-04-17
  4. ^ Kapovich, Michael (2006). "Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications" (PDF). In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians—Madrid. Vol. 2. pp. 719–742.
  5. ^ Hironaka, Eriko (March 9, 2017). "Author Interview: Jennifer Schultens". Book Ends: Conversations about math books. American Mathematical Society.
  6. ^ Kapovich, Ilya. "Faculty website of Ilya Kapovich". Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  7. ^ "Vitali Kapovitch's homepage". www.math.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-02.