Benjamin Weiss
| Benjamin Weiss | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 75–76) New York City |
| Residence | Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University |
| Alma mater | Yeshiva University, NY |
| Thesis | (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Feller |
| Notable students | Jonathan Aaronson, Itai Benjamini, Alexander Furman, Elon Lindenstraus, Michael Hochman, Yonatan Gutman |
| Known for | sofic groups |
Benjamin Weiss (Hebrew: בנימין ווייס; born 1941 in New York City) is an American-Israeli mathematician known for his contributions to Ergodic Theory, Probability, Game Theory, Descriptive Set Theory.
Weiss was born in 1941 in New York City. In 1962 he received B.A. from Yeshiva University and M.A. from the Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, NY. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton under the supervision of William Feller. Between 1965 and 1967 Weiss worked at the IBM Research. In 1967 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and since 1990 occupied the Miriam and Julius Vinik Chair in Mathematics (Emeritus since 2009). Weiss held visiting positions at Stanford, MSRI, and IBM Research Center.
Weiss published over 180 papers in ergodic theory, topological dynamics, orbit equivalence, probability, information theory, game theory, descriptive set theory; with notable contributions including introduction of Markov partitions (with Roy Adler), development of ergodic theory of amenable groups (with Don Ornstein), mean dimension (with Elon Lindenstrauss), introduction of sofic subshifts and sofic groups. The road coloring conjecture was also posed by Weiss with Roy Adler.
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