Alexander Nagel and Stephen Wainger of the Department of Mathematics have been awarded the 2007-08 Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Nagel is the Steenbock Professor of Mathematical Sciences, and Waigner is the Antoni Zygmund Professor of Mathematics.
The two are honored for their fundamental contributions in collaborative work in the the study of Bergman and Szego kernels, their work in the geometry of control (Carnot-Caratheodory) metrics associated to vector fields, and the initial breakthroughs for singular integrals on curves, culminating in a general theory of singular Radon transforms.
The Bergman Prize honors the memory of Stefan Bergman, best known for his research in several complex variables, as well as the Bergman projection and the Bergman kernel function.
http://www.ams.org/notices/201009/rtx100901138p.pdf
Biographical Sketch: Alexander Nagel
Alexander Nagel was born in New York City in 1945. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971, where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Lipman Bers.
He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970, serving as chair of the mathematics department from 1991 to 1993 and as associate dean for the natural sciences in the College of Letters and Science from 1993 to 1998. He was named Steenbock Professor of Mathematical Sciences in 2004.
Nagel held a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1996–1970), an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (1980–1985), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987–88). He received the Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2004 and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.
Biographical Sketch: Stephen Wainger
Stephen Wainger was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1936. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1961, writing his thesis under the direction of Elias M. Stein. He then had short stints at De Paul University and Cornell University.
Since 1966 he has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently the Antoni Zygmund Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin.