C. Robin Graham

Charles Robin Graham is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington, known for a number of contributions to the field of conformal geometry and CR geometry; his collaboration with Charles Fefferman on the ambient construction has been particularly widely cited. The GJMS operators are, in part, named for him.^[1] He is a 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2] Graham received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, under the direction of Elias Stein.^[3]

Major publications

• Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. Conformal invariants. The mathematical heritage of Élie Cartan (Lyon, 1984). Astérisque 1985, Numéro Hors Série, 95–116.
• Graham, C. Robin; Jenne, Ralph; Mason, Lionel J.; Sparling, George A.J. Conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian. I. Existence. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 46 (1992), no. 3, 557–565.
• Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. The Ambient Metric. Annals of Mathematics Studies 178, Princeton University Press, 2012.^[4]

References

1. Baum, Helga; Juhl, Andreas (2011). "Section 1.3: GJMS-operators and Branson's Q-curvatures". Conformal Differential Geometry: Q-Curvature and Conformal Holonomy. Oberwolfach Seminars. Vol. 40. Springer. pp. 21ff. ISBN 9783764399092.
2. Choi, Rose (November 1, 2012). "AMS Fellows Named". Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
3. C. Robin Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Reviews of The Ambient Metric: Andreas Cap, Zbl 1243.53004; Michael G. Eastwood, MR2858236; Michael G. Eastwood, Bull. AMS, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01435-6; Rod Gover, SIAM Rev., doi:10.1137/130973478