Shahar Mozes () is an Israeli mathematician.
Mozes received in 1991, his doctorate from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
with thesis ''Actions of Cartan subgroups'' under the supervision of
Hillel Fürstenberg
Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (; born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. Nation ...
.
[ (doctoral dissertation)] At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mozes became in 1993 a senior lecturer, in 1996 associate professor, and in 2002 a full professor.
Moses does research on
Lie group
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A manifold is a space that locally resembles Eucli ...
s and discrete subgroups of Lie groups,
geometric group theory
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,
ergodic theory
Ergodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity. In this context, "statistical properties" refers to properties which are expressed through the behav ...
, and
aperiodic tiling
An aperiodic tiling is a non-periodic Tessellation, tiling with the additional property that it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches. A set of tile-types (or prototiles) is aperiodic set of prototiles, aperiodic if copie ...
s. His collaborators include
Jean Bourgain
Jean Louis, baron Bourgain (; – ) was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodi ...
,
,
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss (; born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.
Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed as a Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mat ...
,
Gregory Margulis
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theor ...
, and
Hee Oh
Hee Oh (, born 27 October 1969) is a Korean American mathematician and the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. She made contributions to dynamical systems, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and their connections to geomet ...
.
In 2000 Mozes received the
Erdős Prize
The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics is a prize given by the Israel Mathematical Union to an Israeli mathematician (in any field of mathematics and computer science), "with preference to candidates up to the age of 40." The prize was e ...
. In 1998 he was an invited speaker with talk ''Products of trees, lattices and simple groups '' at the
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...
(ICM) in Berlin. He was a plenary speaker at the ICM Satellite Conference on "Geometry Topology and Dynamics in Negative Curvature" held at the
Raman Research Institute
The Raman Research Institute (RRI) is an institute for scientific research located in Bengaluru, India. It was founded by Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman in 1948. Although it began as an institute privately owned by C. V. Raman, it became an ...
of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) from August 2 to August 7, 2010.
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Living people
Israeli mathematicians
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Year of birth missing (living people)
Erdős Prize recipients