Robert Lazarsfeld
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|4|15}}
| birth_place = New York City
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| nationality = American
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = Stony Brook University
University of Michigan
University of California, Los Angeles
| alma_mater = Brown University
Harvard University
| thesis_title = Branched Coverings of Projective Space
| thesis_url = https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~roblaz/Reprints/Lazarsfeld.Thesis.pdf
| thesis_year = 1980
| doctoral_advisor = William Fulton
| doctoral_students = Christopher Hacon
Mihnea Popa
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Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953) is an American mathematician who specializes in algebraic geometry. He is currently a distinguished professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University.[http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~rlaz/index_files/Vita2013.pdf Robert Lazarsfeld's CV] He was previously the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.[http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/people/facultyAlpha.php Univ. of Michigan Mathematics Dept. Faculty Listing], retrieved October 27, 2010. He is the son of two sociologists, Paul Lazarsfeld and Patricia Kendall.
Career
Lazarsfeld received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1980 under supervision of William Fulton.{{MathGenealogy|id=4445}}
From 1983 to 1998, Lazarsfeld was an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of mathematics at UCLA. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1997 and served as the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor there from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 he joined the faculty of Stony Brook University, where he was the chair of the Mathematics Department from 2016-2019. Since 2015, he is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook.
From 2002–2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Managing Editor, 2007–2009).[https://www.ams.org/publications/journals/journalsframework/jams/editorial_history_jams Past editors of the Journal of the AMS] In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.[http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/mmj/ University of Michigan Michigan Math Journal Site]
Awards and bonors
In 2006, Lazarsfeld was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[http://www.ur.umich.edu/0506/May08_06/03.shtml Three U-M faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.] The Record, May 8, 2006, University of Michigan. Accessed May 31, 2011
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved January 27, 2013.
In 2015 he was awarded the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.[https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=2464 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition]
Selected works
- {{Cite book |last=Lazarsfeld |first=Robert |year=2004 |title=Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. I |location=Berlin |publisher=Springer |isbn=3-540-22533-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jAWVmIz80A4C }}; {{cite book|title=Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. II|year=2004|isbn=3-540-22534-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rd4sIp0f79cC|last1=Lazarsfeld|first1=R. K.}}{{cite journal|author=Kollár, János|authorlink=János Kollár|title=Review: Positivity in algebraic geometry. I–II. by Robert Lazarsfeld|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=2006|volume=43|issue=2|pages=279–280|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2006-43-02/S0273-0979-06-01087-1/S0273-0979-06-01087-1.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01087-1|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Lazarsfeld |first1=Robert |last2=Van de Ven |first2=Antonius |year=2012 |orig-year=1984 |title=Topics in the geometry of projective space: Recent work of FL Zak |series=DMV Seminar Vol. 4 |publisher=Birkhäuser |isbn=9783034893480 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMvzBwAAQBAJ |type= with an addendum by Fyodor Zak}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~roblaz/ Website at Stony Brook University]
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