Pavel Winternitz

Pavel Winternitz is a Canadian Czech-born mathematical physicist. He did his undergraduate studies at Prague University and his doctorate at Leningrad University (Ph.D. 1962) under the supervision of J. A. Smorodinsky. His research is on integrable systems and symmetries.

Pavel Winternitz
Born
Prague, Czechoslovakia
CitizenshipCanadian and Czech Republic
Alma materSaint Petersburg University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Known forSymmetries in physics, super-integrable systems, symmetries of continuous and discrete systems
AwardsCAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Wigner medal
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical Physics
InstitutionsUniversité de Montreal
ThesisLorentz group and relativistic symmetries in elementary particle theory (1966)
Doctoral advisorJ. A. Smorodinsky
Doctoral studentsLuc Vinet
Websitewww.crm.umontreal.ca/~wintern/

He is currently a member of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal.

His work has had a strong impact in several domains of mathematical physics, and his publications are very widely cited.

In 2001, he was recipient of the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics .[1]

In 2018, he was recipient of the Wigner medal.

References
  1. CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics – Previous Winners
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