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Ewa Damek (born 9 August 1958) is a Polish mathematician at the University of Wrocław whose research interests include harmonic analysis, branching processes, and Siegel domains.

Education and career

Damek is a professor in the mathematical institute of the University of Wrocław, which she directed from 2002 to 2007.

She studied mathematics at the University of Wrocław beginning in 1977, and completed a doctorate under the supervision of Andrzej Hulanicki [pl] in 1987. After a stint at the University of Georgia in the US, she returned to Wrocław, where she became a full professor in 2000.

Contributions

In 1992, with Fulvio Ricci, Damek published a family of counterexamples to a form of the Lichnerowicz conjecture according to which harmonic Riemannian manifolds must be locally symmetric. The asymmetric spaces they found as counterexamples are at least seven-dimensional; they are called Damek–Ricci spaces.

Damek is the coauthor, with D. Buraczewski and T. Mikosch, of the book Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: The Equation ${\displaystyle X=AX+B}$ (Springer, 2016).

Recognition

In 2011 Damek was named a knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

References

1. ^ Ewa Damek, University of Wrocław, retrieved 2020-04-18
2. ^ Mikołajczyk, Małgorzata, "Order kawalerski dla Damy", University of Wrocław Mathematics Portal (in Polish), retrieved 2020-04-18
3. Berndt, Jürgen; Tricerri, Franco; Vanhecke, Lieven (1995), Generalized Heisenberg Groups and Damek–Ricci Harmonic Spaces, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1598, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0076902, ISBN 3-540-59001-3, MR 1340192
4. Reviews of Stochastic Models with Power Law Tails: R. A. Maller, MR3497380; Miroslav M. Ristić, Zbl 1357.60004

• 1958 births
• Living people
• Polish women mathematicians
• 20th-century Polish mathematicians
• 21st-century Polish mathematicians
• University of Wrocław alumni
• University of Georgia alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Wrocław
• Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta