Events
The Shaw Prize Lecture in Mathematical Sciences 2020
21 May 2021
7 PM
ZOOM Live Streaming
Shaw Laureates in Mathematical Sciences 2020
Professor Alexander BEILINSON
David and Mary Winton Green University Professor, The University of Chicago, USA
Professor David KAZHDAN
Professor of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Alexander Beilinson was born in 1957 in Moscow, Russia and is currently the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor at the University of Chicago, USA. He obtained his PhD in 1988 from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Russia. He was a Researcher at the Landau Institute (1987–1993) and a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1988–1998) before moving to his present position.
David Kazhdan was born in 1946 in Moscow, Russia and is currently Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He received a diploma in 1967 and earned his PhD under Alexandre Kirillov in 1969 from Moscow State University, Russia. After working at Moscow State University as a Researcher (1969–1975), he emigrated to USA to take up a position at Harvard University, where he was successively Visiting Professor (1975–1977), Professor (1977–2002) and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics (2002–). He then emigrated to Israel and has been Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2002. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Email: kannachan@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: 3943 7356
