Florian Pop Appointed the Samuel D. Schack Professor of Algebra

Florian Pop has been appointed the Samuel D. Schack Professor of Algebra in the Department of Mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Pop is the recipient of numerous academic honors including several National Science Foundation research grants and a research grant from the John Templeton Foundation. He was named the Marie Curie Scholar of the European Union in 2007. Dr. Pop is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, and the European Union of Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg.

Dr. Pop has published over two dozen articles in journals such as Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones mathematicae. He is a member of the editorial board of Mathematische Nachrichten and an editor of Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (2000-2006).

The Samuel D. Schack chair was established in 2010 by a bequest from Samuel D. (Don) Schack, a professor and former chair of the Department of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Schack earned a bachelor’s degree from Penn in 1974 and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1980. His gift was made in honor of Murray Gerstenhaber, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, who came to Penn in 1953.

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