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Shmuel Weinberger is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he maintains his office in Eckhart 403. His research spans various areas of geometry and topology, with particular focus on high-dimensional manifolds, global analysis, and quantitative applications of topological methods.
His research interests include the topology of high-dimensional manifolds, global analysis (particularly L2 cohomology and index theory) on noncompact manifolds, singularities including orbifolds, applications of logical and computer scientific ideas to variational problems, and the large-scale geometry of moduli spaces. Recently, he has been involved in applying algebraic topology to analyze large data sets, robotics, and economics. His work connects fundamental group theory to manifold invariants, with connections to the Novikov, Borel, and Baum-Connes conjectures.
Professor Weinberger has supervised numerous PhD students including Min Yan, Stanley Chang, Heather Johnston, Kevin Whyte, and Fedor Manin, among others. His academic contributions extend to teaching courses in algebraic topology, differential topology, quantitative topology, and mathematical modeling.
His professional activities include maintaining active research collaborations across multiple institutions, organizing seminars including the Algebraic Topology Seminar and Geometry-Topology Seminar at the University of Chicago, and contributing to interdisciplinary research programs such as the MSRI program in Fall 2006 focused on applications of topology to data analysis.
