James Grieg ARTHUR

Address:

Dept. of Mathematics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1A1

Phone: (1) 416-978 4524
Fax: (1) 416-978 4107
E-Mail: arthur@math.toronto.edu

Born:

May 18, 1944, Hamilton, Canada

Education:

1966 B.Sc., University of Toronto
1967 M.Sc., University of Toronto
1970 Ph.D., Yale University

Positions:

1970 - 1972 Instructor, Princeton University
1972 - 1976 Assistant Professor, Yale University
1976 - 1978 Professor, Duke University
1978 - Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
1987 - University Professor, University of Toronto

Selected Awards, Honours and Distinctions:

1974 - 1975 University Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale (held at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
1975 - 1977 Sloan Fellowship (held at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
1980 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1982 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
1983 Invited Lecturer for International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw
1987 Synge Award (of Royal Society of Canada)
1992 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London

Research Interests:

Representation theory, automorphic forms, number theory

Selected Publications:

1. On a family of distributions obtained from Eisenstein series II: Explicit formulas
   Amer. J. Math. 104 (1982) 1289-1336.

2. A Paley-Wiener theorem for real reductive groups
   Acta Math. l50 (l983) 1-89.

3. On a family of distributions obtained from orbits
   Canad. J. Math. 38 (1986) 179-214.

4. The invariant trace formula. II. Global theory
   J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1988) 501-554.

5. The L^2-Lefschetz numbers of Hecke operators
   Invent. Math. 97 (1989) 257-290.

6. Unipotent automorphic representations: Conjectures
   Asterisque 171-172 (1989) 13-71.

7. A local trace formula
   Pub. Math. I.H.E.S. 73 (1991) 5-96.

8. Simple Algebras, Base Change and the Advanced Theory of the Trace Formula (Book, with L. Clozel)
   Annals of Math. Studies, Vol. 120, 1989, Princeton University Press.