Stephen Semmes is Noah Harding Professor of Mathematics at Rice University

Rice University

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. He is known for contributions to analysis on metric space

Metric space

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s, as well as harmonic analysis

Harmonic analysis

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, complex variables

Complex variables

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, partial differential equations, and differential geometry.

Awards

Semmes was awarded a Sloan Fellowship

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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 in 1987. In 1994, he gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians

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.

Publications

• Coifman, R.; Lions, P.-L.; Meyer, Y.; Semmes, S.: Compensated compactness and Hardy spaces. J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 72 (1993), no. 3, 247–286.

• David, Guy; Semmes, Stephen: Analysis of and on uniformly rectifiable sets. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 38. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1993.

• David, G.; Journé, J.-L.; Semmes, S.: Opérateurs de Calderón-Zygmund, fonctions para-accrétives et interpolation. [Calderón-Zygmund operators, para-accretive functions and interpolation] Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 1 (1985), no. 4, 1–56.

• David, Guy; Semmes, Stephen: Fractured fractals and broken dreams. Self-similar geometry through metric and measure. Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications, 7. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.

(97j:46033) Semmes, S. Finding curves on general spaces through quantitative topology, with applications to Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities. Selecta Math. (N.S.) 2 (1996), no. 2, 155–295.

• Stephen Semmes. "Appendix B: Metric spaces and mappings seen at many scales" (pp. 401–518). In Gromov, Misha
  Mikhail Gromov
  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, also spelled Mikhael Gromov or Michael Gromov; , , is a Russian mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of mathematics...
  
  : Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
  Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
  Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces is a book in geometry by Mikhail Gromov. It was originally published in French in 1981 under the title Structures métriques pour les variétés riemanniennes, by CEDIC . The 1981 edition was edited by Jacques Lafontaine and Pierre Pansu...
  
  . Based on the 1981 French original. With appendices by M. Katz
  Mikhail Katz
  Mikhail Katz is an Israeli mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Bar Ilan University. His main interests are differential geometry and geometric topology; he is the author of a book about systolic geometry....
  
  , P. Pansu and S. Semmes. Translated from the French by Sean Michael Bates. Progress in Mathematics, 152. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1999. xx+585 pp. ISBN 0-8176-3898-9