Roman Bezrukavnikov (
Russian
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: Роман Безрукавников; born July 1, 1973) is a Russian-American
mathematician
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born in Moscow.
He is a mathematics professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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and the chief research fellow at the
HSE International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics who specializes in
representation theory
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and
algebraic geometry
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.
Education and career
He graduated from
Moscow State School 57 mathematical class in 1990, and earned an
M.A.
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at
Brandeis University
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in 1994. He received his
Ph.D. in mathematics from
Tel Aviv University
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in 1998 under the supervision of
Joseph N. Bernstein.
Bezrukavnikov was a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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in 1996-1998 and again in 2007–2008. He was a Dickson Instructor at the
University of Chicago
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in 1999-2001. In 2001 he was awarded a
Clay Research Fellowship,
and in 2004, he won a
Sloan Research Fellowship
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...
from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support origina ...
.
He was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics by the
Simons Foundation
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in 2014, and again in 2020.
References
External links
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Faculty page at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1973 births
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Brandeis University alumni
Tel Aviv University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
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