Alexander Braverman (born June 8, 1974) is an Israeli mathematician.
Alexander Braverman | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 8, 1974 |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
| Known for | Geometric Langlands program |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Bernstein |
Life and work
editBraverman was born in Moscow.[citation needed]. He earned in 1993 a BA degree in mathematics from the University of Tel Aviv, where in 1998 he received a Ph.D. (Kazhdan-Laumon Representations of Finite Chevalley Groups, Character Sheaves and Some Generalization of the Lefschetz-Verdier Trace Formula) under supervision of Joseph Bernstein.[1] From 1997 to 1999 he was a C.L.E. Moore instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2004 Benjamin Peirce Lecturer at Harvard University. He was an associate professor at Brown University from 2004 to 2009 and then a full professor from 2009 to 2015. He is a full professor at University of Toronto since 2015 and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He was also a visiting scholar at Institute for Advanced Study (1997, 1999), the University of Paris VI and the Paris-Nord, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute, Clay Mathematics Institute and at the IHES in Paris.[citation needed]
Braverman specializes in the geometric Langlands program, the intersection of number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, which also has applications to mathematical physics.[citation needed]
In 2006 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (Spaces of quasi-maps into the flag varieties and their applications).[citation needed]