David Kazhdan#
| Membership Number: | 5241 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1975 - 2005 Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
- 2005 - present Professor, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fields of Scholarship
- Automorphic forms
- Representation theory of algebraic groups and arithmetic groups
- Applications of motivic integration to the representation theory of algebraic groups
- Representations of p-adic Lie groups
- Representations of affine Kac-Moody groups and loop groups over local and global fields
- Kazhdan's T property
- Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Invited Speaker at International Congress of Mathematics, Berkeley
- 1990 MacArthur Fellow
- 1900 National Academy of Sciences (Washington)
- 2008 American Academy of Arts and Science
- 2012 Plenary Speaker at European Congress of Mathematics, Krakow
- 2012 Israel Prize
- 2020 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
