Alan Weinstein

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

For the American historian, educator, and federal official, see Allen Weinstein.
Alan Weinstein
BornJune 17, 1943 (1943-06-17) (age 80)
New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
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
Oh Yong-Geun
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