Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born 14 June 1949) is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.More recently, he developed free probability theory.Voiculescu studied at the University of Bucharest, receiving his PhD in 1977 under the direction of Ciprian Foias.He came to Berkeley in 1986 for the International Congress of Mathematicians, and stayed on as visiting professor.He received the 2004 NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for “the theory of free probability, in particular, using random matrices and a new concept of entropy to solve several hitherto intractable problems in von Neumann algebras.”[2] Voiculescu was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
BucharestRomaniaUniversity of BucharestMathematicsUniversity of California, BerkeleyDoctoral advisorCiprian FoiasSorin PopaRomanianoperator theoryK-theoryvon Neumann algebrasfree probabilityInstitute of Mathematics of the Romanian AcademyInternational Congress of MathematiciansNAS Award in Mathematicsrandom matricesentropyAmerican Mathematical SocietyMathematics Genealogy ProjectNotices of the American Mathematical Society