Peter Trapa | |
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Born | 1974 |
Awards | Fellow of the AMS |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics Lie Groups |
Peter Engel Trapa is an American mathematician and the dean of the College of Science and College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the University of Utah.[1] His research focus is on the representation theory of reductive Lie groups.[2] Trapa received his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and integrated science from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] While at MIT, Trapa studied representation theory with David Vogan.[4] He completed postdoctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and Harvard University.