Peter Trapa

Peter Trapa
Born1974
AwardsFellow of the AMS
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics 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.

  1. ^ "Peter Trapa selected as new dean of the College of Science | UNews". unews.utah.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations". www.liegroups.org. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Peter E. Trapa - Bio". www.math.utah.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Web page for David Vogan". www-math.mit.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2021.