George Lusztig
George Lusztig | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | Romanian, British, American |
Alma mater | Princeton University (Ph.D) (1971) University of Bucharest |
Awards | Berwick Prize (1977) Cole Prize (1985) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008) Shaw Prize (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Warwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah William Browder |
Doctoral students | Corrado de Concini Ian Grojnowski Xuhua He |
George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig; May 20, 1946) is an American-Romanian mathematician and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
Education and career[]
Born in Timișoara to a Hungarian-Jewish family,[1] he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1968. Later that year he left Romania for the United Kingdom, where he spent several months at the University of Warwick and Oxford University. In 1969 he moved to the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1971 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Novikov's higher signature and families of elliptic operators", under the supervision of William Browder and Michael Atiyah.[2][3]
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.[4][1]
Contributions[]
He is known for his work on representation theory, in particular for the objects closely related to algebraic groups, such as finite reductive groups, Hecke algebras, -adic groups, quantum groups, and Weyl groups. He essentially paved the way for modern representation theory. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the character sheaves, the Deligne–Lusztig varieties, and the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.[5]
Awards and honors[]
In 1983, Lusztig was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.[4] In 1985 Lusztig won the Cole Prize (Algebra). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, received the Brouwer Medal in 1999 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[6] and in 2014 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.[7] He also received the National Order of Faithful Service in 2003.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "George Lusztig". The GAP Group. Archived from the original on 21 December 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ George Lusztig at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Lusztig, George (1971). Novikov's higher signature and families of elliptic operators.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "George Lusztig Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics". MIT Mathematics Department. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ Carter, Roger W., A survey of the work of George Lusztig, 182 (2006), pp. 1–45.
- ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ Schroeder, Bendta (2 June 2014). "George Lusztig awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
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