| Paul Balmer | |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Fields: | Algebra |
| Workplaces: | UCLA |
| Alma Mater: | University of Lausanne |
| Thesis Title: | Groupes de Witt dérivés des schémas |
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| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Manuel Ojanguren |
| Awards: | Humboldt Prize |
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Paul Balmer (born 1970) is a Swiss mathematician, working in algebra. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
Balmer received his Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne in 1998, under the supervision of Manuel Ojanguren, with a thesis entitled Groupes de Witt dérivés des Schémas (in French).
His research centers around triangulated categories. More specifically, he is a proponent of tensor-triangular geometry, an umbrella topic which covers geometric aspects of algebraic geometry, modular representation theory, stable homotopy theory, and other areas, by means of relevant tensor-triangulated categories.
Balmer was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010, with a talk on Tensor Triangular Geometry.[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] He was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 2015.[4]