David Vogan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Vogan

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1954

Place of Birth: Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

David Alexander Vogan, Jr.
(born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups.
He received his Ph.D.
from M.I.T.
in 1976, under the supervision of Bertram Kostant.
In his thesis, he introduced the notion of lowest K type in the course of obtaining an algebraic classification of irreducible Harish Chandra modules.
He is currently one of the participants in the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations. Vogan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.
He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1999 to 2004 . In 2012 he became Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He was president of the AMS in 2013–2014.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
He is currently the Norbert Wiener Chair of Mathematics at MIT.