Eugene Plotkin (mathematician)

Eugene Plotkin (born September 22, 1955) is a Russian-born Israeli mathematician who conducted groundbreaking research in the areas of algebraic groups and K-theory. He has received numerous grants from European and Israeli nonprofit organizations in support of his work.

Biography

Eugene Plotkin was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union on September 22, 1955, son of a mathematician Boris Plotkin.^[1] He received his master's degree in mathematics from the Leningrad State University (since renamed to Saint Petersburg State University) in 1978. He continued at the university to work on his doctorate under the tutelage of advisor Zenon Borevich.^[2] At the same time, Plotkin also joined the research team at the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1985, he completed his doctorate dissertation on the topic of “Net subgroups of Chevalley groups and stability questions for K1-functor”.

In 1987, Plotkin moved to Riga, Latvia where he took the position of Assistant Professor at the Riga Military Academy. A year later, he became an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Riga Technical University, where he remained until 1993. Alongside his teaching duties, Plotkin also completed his postdoctorate at the University of Latvia, receiving his Habilitation degree in 1992, which represents the highest academic honor awarded in Latvia.

In 1993, Plotkin immigrated to Israel and became a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, where he taught graduate courses in complex analysis, linear algebra, set theory, and Lie algebra. In 1994, he took a semester as a Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany for one semester. He was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 1998 and to Leading Research Fellow and Professor in 2002.

Starting in the mid-1990s Plotkin conducted extensive research into Chevalley groups and algebraic K-theory,^[3] receiving grants from INTAS and the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) in support of this work. He also gave workshops and seminars at numerous universities in Canada and the United States, including Toronto University, Hebrew University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, McGill University, and Notre Dame University.

Plotkin has been invited to speak at numerous International Algebraic Conferences, at symposia sponsored by the Max Planck Institutes, and at major mathematics conferences held in Russia, Germany, Israel, England, Poland, Georgia, and the Netherlands. In the international mathematics community, Plotkin is considered a leading authority on algebraic groups and K-theory.

Selected publications

• A. Kanel-Belov, B. Kunyavskii, E. Plotkin, “Word equations in simple groups and polynomial equations in simple algebras”, Vestnik, St. Petersburg University: Mathematics, 2013.
• F. Grunewald, B. Kunyavskii, E. Plotkin, “Characterization of solvable groups and solvable radical”, International Journal of Algebra and Computation (IJAC), 2013.
• N. Gordeev, F. Grunewald, B. Kunyavskii, E. Plotkin, “Baer–Suzuki theorem for the solvable radical of a finite group”, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Paris, Series I, Volume 347, 2009.
• R. Guralnick, E. Plotkin, A. Shalev, “Burnside-type problems related to solvability property”, International Journal of Algebra and Computation 17, 2007.
• B.Kunyavskii, E.Plotkin, R.Shklyar, “A strategy for human-computer study of equations and identities in finite groups”, Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences 57b, 2003.
• J.Morita, E.Plotkin, “Prescribed Gauss decomposition for Kac–Moody groups over fields”, Rendiconti Universita di Padova, 2001.
• E. Plotkin, A. Tsurkov, “Geometrical equivalence of groups”, Communications in Algebra, 27, 1999.
• E.Plotkin, “On the stability of the K1-functor for Chevalley groups of type E7”, Journal of Algebra, 1998.
• E.Plotkin, “Surjective stabilization for K1-functor for twisted Chevalley groups, rings and modules, limit theorems of the probability theory”, Saint Petersburg University Press, Vol. 3, 1993.

References

External links

• Eugene Plotkin Profile at Bar-Ilan University
• Eugene Plotkin on Microsoft Academic Search
• Co-authored paper abstract at European Mathematical Society
• Eugene Plotkin page at Cornell University Library