Robert Lazarsfeld

Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953) is an American mathematician, currently a professor at Stony Brook University.[1] He was previously the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.[2] He is the son of two sociologists, Paul Lazarsfeld and Patricia Kendall. His research focuses on algebraic geometry.

Robert Lazarsfeld
Born (1953-04-15) April 15, 1953
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsStony Brook University
University of Michigan
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorWilliam Fulton
Doctoral studentsChristopher Hacon
Mihnea Popa

During 2002–2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Managing Editor, 2007–2009).[3] In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.[4]

Lazarsfeld went to Harvard for undergraduate studies and earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1980 under supervision of William Fulton.[5]

In 2006 Lazarsfeld was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] In 2015 he was awarded the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.[8]

Selected works
  • Lazarsfeld, Robert (2004). Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. I. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-22533-1.; Lazarsfeld, R. K. (2004). Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. II. ISBN 3-540-22534-X.[9]
  • Lazarsfeld, Robert; Van de Ven, Antonius (2012) [1984]. Topics in the geometry of projective space: Recent work of FL Zak. DMV Seminar Vol. 4. Birkhäuser. ISBN 9783034893480; with an addendum by Fyodor Zak{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

References
  1. Robert Lazarsfeld's CV
  2. Univ. of Michigan Mathematics Dept. Faculty Listing, retrieved October 27, 2010.
  3. Past editors of the Journal of the AMS
  4. University of Michigan Michigan Math Journal Site
  5. Robert Lazarsfeld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Three U-M faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Record, May 8, 2006, University of Michigan. Accessed May 31, 2011
  7. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved January 27, 2013.
  8. 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
  9. Kollár, János (2006). "Review: Positivity in algebraic geometry. I–II. by Robert Lazarsfeld" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 43 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01087-1.


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