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Aaron Naber (born November 16, 1982) is an American mathematician. [1]
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Aaron Naber (born November 16, 1982) is an American mathematician. [1]
Aaron Naber graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University. He received in 2009 his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. [2] His Ph.D. thesis (Ricci solitons and collapsed spaces) was supervised by Gang Tian. [3] At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Naber was from 2009 to 2012 a Moore Instructor and from 2012 to 2013 an assistant professor. At Northwestern University he was from 2013 to 2015 an associate professor and was appointed in 2015 Kenneth F. Burgess Professor for Mathematics. [2] In 2024 he was appointed a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study. [4]
Naber does research on nonlinear harmonic maps, minimal varifolds, general elliptic partial differential equations, geometric analysis, the calculus of variations, and differential geometry with applications in mathematical physics to Yang-Mills theories and Einstein manifolds. [5] In his doctoral dissertation, Naber extended the investigation from the three dimensions investigated by Perelman to manifolds having four or more dimensions (with bounded non-negative curvature) and investigated shrinking soliton solutions. [6] With Gang Tian, he investigated the geometric structure of collapsing n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with uniformly bounded sectional curvature and in particular that in four and fewer dimensions a smooth orbifold structure results outside a finite number of points.
As a postdoctoral student Naber and Tobias Colding solved the constant dimension conjecture for lower Ricci curvature, which shows limits of manifolds with lower Ricci curvature have a well defined dimension. As a postdoc and later assistant professor at MIT, Naber and Jeff Cheeger introduced the notion of quantitative stratification to Lower Ricci curvature. The estimates and techniques caught on in a wide variety of nonlinear equations, including nonlinear harmonic maps, minimal surfaces, mean curvature flow, and Yang Mills.
During his time at Northwestern, Naber and Cheeger proved the codimension four conjecture, showing in particular that Einstein manifolds have controlled singular sets. This work was extended with Wenshuai Jiang in order to prove sharp rectifiability of the singular sets. During this time Naber gave a characterization of Einstein manifolds, or more generally spaces with bounded Ricci curvature, through the analysis of path space of the manifold. This work was generalized with Robert Haslhofer to give a full generation of the Bakry-Emery-Ledoux estimates for martingales on path space. Near the end of his time at Northwestern, Elia Brue, Naber and Daniele Semola gave a counterexample to the Milnor conjecture, showing the existence of spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature and infinitely generated fundamental group.
Naber and Daniele Valtorta have also done a series of works on nonlinear harmonic maps. Together they developed a stratification theory for nonlinear harmonic maps, which broadly extended the results of Schoen/Uhlenbeck from Hausdorff dimension estimates to finite measure and rectifiable structure for singular sets. The techniques were general and generalized by many others, applying to many situations in which the dimension reduction ideas of Federer had worked, including minimal surfaces, Yang-Mills, Q-valued harmonic maps. Valtorta and Naber have also resolved the Energy Identity conjecture, first for Yang-Mills and later for nonlinear harmonic maps using very different sets of ideas.
In 2014 Naber was awarded a two-year Sloan Research Fellowship and was an invited speaker with talk The structure and meaning of Ricci curvature at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul. [2] In 2018 he received the New Horizon in Mathematics Prize [7] and was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [8] In 2023 Naber was awarded a Simons Investigator award. In 2023 the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse awarded him the Fermat Prize. [9] In 2024 Naber was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. [10]
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