JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prof. Alexander Lubotzky was the first Israeli to deliver a keynote speech at the largest mathematics conference in the United States this weekend, Hebrew University announced.
Prof. Lubotzky was invited to give a three-part lecture on ‘Expander Graphs in Pure and Applied Mathematics’ by the 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans this weekend, hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
This honor bestowed on a Hebrew University mathematician comes just shortly after Prof. Eilon Lindenstrauss of the Hebrew University’s Einstein Institute of Mathematics was awarded the prestigious Fields Prize in Mathematics. The conference was established at the end of the 19th century.
Prof. Alexander Lubotzky has made fundamental contributions in group theory and its applications to geometry, arithmetic and combinatorics. His wide-ranging interests include topics such as the discrete subgroups of Lie groups, hyperbolic geometry, p-adic analytic groups, subgroup growth, pro-finite groups, finite simple groups and their combinatorics. His work with Sarnak and Phillips on the explicit construction of Ramanujan graphs via modular forms and the problem of distributing points on the sphere were the subjects of Bourbaki reports and attracted a great deal of attention in computer science and engineering.
Lubotzky is the Maurice and Clara Weil Professor of Mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University, and has held visiting positions at Columbia, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. During the academic year 2005/06 he led a year-long program at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton on “Lie Groups, Representations, and Discrete Mathematics.”
He has published hree books and more than 100 papers. His name appears in the ISI list of most cited scientists. He has received various prizes including the Erdős prize, the Rothschild prize, and twice the Ferran Sunyer L. Baloger prize for his research monographs “Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs, and Invariant Measures” and “Subgroup Growth” (written with D. Segal). He was an invited speaker at the Zurich ICM in 1994 and gave the Woodward lectures at Yale in 1998, the Ritt lectures at Columbia in 1999, the Eilenberg lectures in 2000, the Porter lectures at Rice in 2001, and the Distinguished Lecture Series at UCLA in 2004.
In 2005, Lubotzky was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a foreign honorary member and in 2006, he received an honorary degree from the University of Chicago for his contributions to modern mathematics. Lubotzky was a member of Knesset during the years 1996-99. He is married to Yardenna and they have six children.
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