Michael Rapoport

For the actor, see Michael Rapaport.

Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948)^[1] is an Austrian mathematician.

Michael Rapoport
Born	(1948-10-02) 2 October 1948 (age 76) Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	Paris-Sud 11 University
Known for	Works on Shimura varieties and Langlands program
Awards	Leibniz Prize (1992) Heinz Hopf Prize (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Bonn
Doctoral advisor	Pierre Deligne
Doctoral students	Peter Scholze Eva Viehmann

Career

Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne.^[2] He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn,^[3] as well as a visiting appointment at the University of Maryland. In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,^[4] in 1999 he won the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize,^[5] and he is the recipient of the 2011 Heinz Hopf Prize.^[6] In 1994, he was an Invited Speaker (with talk Non-Archimedean period domains) at the ICM in Zürich.

Rapoport's students include Maria Heep-Altiner, Werner Baer, Peter Scholze, Eva Viehmann.^[2]

Personal life

Michael Rapoport is the son of pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport and biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, and brother of biochemist Tom Rapoport.

Selected publications

• Deligne, P.; Rapoport, M. (1973). "Les Schémas de Modules de Courbes Elliptiques" (PDF). Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-37855-6_4. ISBN 978-3-540-06558-6. ISSN 0075-8434.
• Ash, Avner; Mumford, David; Rapoport, Michael; Tai, Yung-sheng (2009). Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511674693. ISBN 978-0-511-67469-3.
• Rapoport, M.; Zink, Th. (1982). "Über die lokale Zetafunktion von Shimuravarietäten. Monodromiefiltration und verschwindende Zyklen in ungleicher Charakteristik". Inventiones Mathematicae (in German). 68 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 21–101. Bibcode:1982InMat..68...21R. doi:10.1007/bf01394268. ISSN 0020-9910. S2CID 118533956.
• Laumon, G.; Rapoport, M.; Stuhler, U. (1993). "D-elliptic sheaves and the langlands correspondence". Inventiones Mathematicae. 113 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 217–338. Bibcode:1993InMat.113..217L. doi:10.1007/bf01244308. ISSN 0020-9910. S2CID 124557672.
• Rapoport, Michael (1995). "Non-Archimedian [sic] Period Domains" (PDF). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Basel: Birkhäuser Basel. pp. 423–434. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_35. ISBN 978-3-0348-9897-3.
• with M. Richartz: On the classification and specialization of F-isocrystals with additional structure. In: Composito Mathematica 103(1996), no. 2, pp. 153–182. MR1411570
• Rapoport, M (1996). Period spaces for p-divisible groups (PDF). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02782-1. OCLC 945632434.
• Kudla, Stephen (2006). Modular forms and special cycles on Shimura curves (PDF). Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12551-1. OCLC 803434031.
• Kudla, Stephen; Rapoport, Michael (25 November 2010). "Special cycles on unitary Shimura varieties I. Unramified local theory". Inventiones Mathematicae. 184 (3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 629–682. arXiv:0804.0600. doi:10.1007/s00222-010-0298-z. ISSN 0020-9910. S2CID 15824793.

References

1. "HCM: Prof. Dr. Michael Rapoport". hcm.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
2. Michael Rapoport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "Prof. Dr. Michael Rapoport (i.R.)". Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn (in German). 19 October 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
4. List of Leibniz Prize winners from 1986 to 2022, DFG
5. "Gay-Lussac/Humboldt-Preis für Professor Rapoport". idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. (in German). 17 July 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
6. "Laureates". ETH Zurich. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

External links

• Homepage in Bonn
• Oberwolfach Photo Collection, Details for Michael Rapoport
• Michael Rapoport publications indexed by Google Scholar