George Lusztig
| George Lusztig | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 20, 1946 Timişoara, Romania |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | Romanian American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Warwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University (Ph.D) (1971) University of Bucharest |
| Doctoral advisor |
Michael Atiyah William Browder |
| Doctoral students |
Corrado de Concini Ian Grojnowski Nigel O'Brian |
| Notable awards |
Berwick Prize (1977) Cole Prize (1985) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008) Shaw Prize (2014) |
George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig, May 20, 1946) is a Romanian-American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor with the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
Born in Timişoara, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. He left Romania for the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operators, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University, under the direction of William Browder and Michael Atiyah.
Lusztig worked for almost seven years at the University of Warwick. His involvement at the university encompassed a Research Fellowship, (1971–72); lecturer in Mathematics, (1972–74); and Professor of Mathematics, (1974–78). In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT.
He is known for his work on representation theory, in particular for algebraic groups. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the Deligne–Lusztig variety and the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.
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