Robert Lazarsfeld
Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who studies algebraic geometry .
Lazarsfeld is the son of the sociologist Paul Felix Lazarsfeld . He studied at Harvard University ( bachelor's degree in 1975) and received his doctorate in 1980 from Brown University under William Fulton ( Branched coverings of projective space ). 1980 to 1983 he was Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard University and 1981/82 at the Institute for Advanced Study . From 1983 he was Assistant Professor, 1984 Associate Professor and from 1987 Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles . He has been a professor at the University of Michigan since 1997 and Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor since 2007 .
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyōto ( Linear series on algebraic varieties ). From 1984 to 1987 he was a Sloan Research Fellow , 1985 to 1990 Presidential Young Investigator, from 1998/99 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2005 Colloquium Lecturer at the AMS ( How polynomials vanish: Singularities, integrals, and ideals ), of which he is a fellow. In 2015 he will receive the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his two-volume work Positivity in Algebraic Geometry .
Christopher Hacon is one of his PhD students .
From 1998 to 2004 he was editor of the Journal of Algebraic Geometry and from 2002 to 2007 of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society and from 2007 to 2009 its managing editor. Since 2012 he has been the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
Fonts
- Positivity in Algebraic Geometry, 2 volumes, Results of Mathematics and their Frontier Areas, Springer Verlag 2004
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Robert Lazarsfeld in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lazarsfeld, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lazarsfeld, Robert Kendall (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |