Antony Wassermann


Antony John Wassermann is a British mathematician, working in operator algebras. He is known for his works on conformal field theory, on the actions of compact groups on von Neumann algebras, and his proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for connected reductive linear Lie groups.
He attended Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne from 1968 to 1974, and received his Ph.D at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, under the supervision of Jonathan Rosenberg.
He was Directeur de Recherches CNRS at Aix-Marseille University from 1999 to 2013.
He is the son of the quantum physicist Gerhard Dietrich Wassermann and the brother of the mathematician Alexander Simon Wassermann.

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