Vaughan F. R. Jones

JOB TITLE:   Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography(link is external)

AMS Memorial Tribute(link is external)

New Zealand Journal of Mathematics issue dedicated to Vaughan Jones(link is external)

PhD students(link is external)

Wikipedia page(link is external)

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA:   Mathematical Analysis

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS:   Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Von Neumann algebras

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Jones, Vaughan (2009). On the origin and development of subfactors and quantum topology. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 46 No.2, 309-326. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
  2. Jones, Vaughan F. R. (2007). In and around the origin of quantum groups. In Prospects in mathematical physics Contemp. Math. 437 101-126 Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, RI. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
  3. Grossman, Pinhas and Jones, Vaughan F. R. (2007). Intermediate subfactors with no extra structure. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 No.1, 219-265 (electronic). [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
  4. Jones, Vaughan F. R. and Reznikoff, Sarah A. (2006). Hilbert space representations of the annular Temperley-Lieb algebra. Pacific J. Math. 228 No.2, 219-249. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
  5. Aharonov, Dorit and Jones, Vaughan and Landau, Zeph (2006). A polynomial quantum algorithm for approximating the Jones polynomial. In STOC'06: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 427-436 ACM New York. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]

Vaughan F. R. Jones

YEAR APPOINTED: 1985

LEFT UC BERKELEY: 2011

RETIRED: 2013

DECEASED: 2020