Alexander Lubotzky | |
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 Lubotzky in 2011 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1996–1999 | The Third Way |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 June 1956 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Spouse | Yardenna Lubotzky |
| Children | six living offspring: Asael Lubotzky |
| Alma mater | Bar Ilan University |
| Known for | Geometric group theory, the study of lattices in Lie groups, representation theory of discrete groups and Kazhdan's property (T), the study of subgroup growth and applications of group theory to combinatorics and computer science (expander graphs) and error correcting codes |
| Awards | Landau Award (1979); Bergman Memorial Prize (1980–1); Erdős Prize (1990); Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (1992, 2002); Rothschild Prize (2002); ISI highly cited researcher (2003); Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005); Honorary degree from the University of Chicago (2006); The Rector's Prize of the Hebrew University (2007); European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2008); Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014); European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2015); Israel Prize (2018) European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science, Hebrew University, Stanford, University of Chicago, Columbia, Yale, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NYU, ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | Pro-finite groups and the congruence subgroup problem (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hillel Furstenberg |
Alexander Lubotzky (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לובוצקי; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University.[1] He served as a member of the Knesset for The Third Way party between 1996 and 1999. In 2018 he won the Israel Prize for his accomplishments in mathematics and computer science.