Ewa Damek

Ewa Damek (born 9 August 1958) is a Polish mathematician at the University of Wrocław whose research interests include harmonic analysis, branching processes, and Siegel domains.

Education and career

Damek is a professor in the mathematical institute of the University of Wrocław,[1] which she directed from 2002 to 2007.[2]

She studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław beginning in 1977, and completed a doctorate under the supervision of Andrzej Hulanicki in 1987. After a stint at the University of Georgia in the US, she returned to Wrocław, where she became a full professor in 2000.[2]

Contributions

In 1992, with Fulvio Ricci, Damek published a family of counterexamples to a form of the Lichnerowicz conjecture according to which harmonic Riemannian manifolds must be locally symmetric. The asymmetric spaces they found as counterexamples are at least seven-dimensional; they are called Damek–Ricci spaces.[3]

Damek is the coauthor, with D. Buraczewski and T. Mikosch, of the book Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: The Equation (Springer, 2016).[4]

Recognition

In 2011 Damek was named a knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[1][2]

References
  1. Ewa Damek, University of Wrocław, retrieved 2020-04-18
  2. Mikołajczyk, Małgorzata, "Order kawalerski dla Damy", University of Wrocław Mathematics Portal (in Polish), retrieved 2020-04-18
  3. Berndt, Jürgen; Tricerri, Franco; Vanhecke, Lieven (1995), Generalized Heisenberg Groups and Damek–Ricci Harmonic Spaces, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1598, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0076902, ISBN 3-540-59001-3, MR 1340192
  4. Reviews of Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: R. A. Maller, MR3497380; Miroslav M. Ristić, Zbl 1357.60004
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