Alan Weinstein

Alan Weinstein
BornJune 17, 1943 (1943-06-17) (age 81)
New York, United States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forMarsden-Weinstein quotient

Weinstein conjecture
Symplectic groupoid

Symplectic category
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship, 1971
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Thesis The Cut Locus and Conjugate Locus of a Riemannian Manifold  (1967)
Doctoral advisorShiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral studentsTheodore Courant
Viktor Ginzburg
Steve Omohundro
Steven Zelditch
Yong-Geun Oh

Alan David Weinstein (born 17 June 1943) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry.