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Rodolfo H. Torres

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Rodolfo Humberto Torres is an Argentinian American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis who works as the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside.

Torres did his undergraduate studies at the National University of Rosario in Argentina, completing a licenciatura there in 1984.[1][2] He earned his doctorate in 1989 from Washington University in St. Louis, with a dissertation entitled On the Boundedness of Certain Operators with Singular Kernels on Distribution Spaces and supervised by Björn D. Jawerth.[2][3] In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[1][4] He was named a Distinguished Professor in 2016.[1][2]

As well as his work in pure mathematics, Torres has also published works on light scattering mechanisms for the colorings of birds and insects.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Five faculty members earn distinguished professor status, Univ. of Kansas, June 2, 2016, retrieved 2017-04-28.
  2. ^ a b c [1], CV, retrieved 2022-08-23.
  3. ^ Rodolfo Humberto Torres at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-04-28.
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