George Lusztig
| George Lusztig | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1946 Timişoara, Romania |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | Romanian American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University University of Bucharest |
| Doctoral advisor |
Michael Atiyah William Browder |
| Doctoral students |
Corrado de Concini Ian Grojnowski Nigel O'Brian |
| Notable awards |
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008) Cole Prize (1985) |
George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig, 1946), is an American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor with the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
Education and career
Born in Timişoara, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. He left Romania for the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operators, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University, under the direction of William Browder.[1]
Lusztig worked for almost seven years at the University of Warwick. His involvement at the university encompassed a Research Fellowship, (1971–72); lecturer in Mathematics, (1972–74); and Professor of Mathematics, (1974–78). In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT.[2][3]
Contributions
He is known for his work on representation theory, in particular for algebraic groups. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the Deligne–Lusztig variety and the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.[4]
Awards and honors
In 1985, Lusztig won the Cole Prize (Algebra). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 and received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2008. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
References
- ↑ George Lusztig at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "George Lusztig Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics". MIT Mathematics Department. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ↑ "George Lusztig". The GAP Group. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ↑ Carter, Roger W., A survey of the work of George Lusztig, Nagoya Mathematical Journal 182 (2006), pp. 1–45.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-02.
External links
- George Lusztig's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
- George Lusztig's entry in the International Who's Who.
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