Alan Weinstein

Alan Weinstein
Born	June 17, 1943 (1943-06-17) (age 81) New York, United States
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Marsden-Weinstein quotient Weinstein conjecture Symplectic groupoid Symplectic category
Awards	Sloan Research Fellowship, 1971 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	The Cut Locus and Conjugate Locus of a Riemannian Manifold  (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral students	Theodore Courant Viktor Ginzburg Steve Omohundro Steven Zelditch Oh Yong-Geun

Alan David Weinstein (born 17 June 1943) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry.