1. Alexander Lubotzky 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.
25 Facts About Alexander Lubotzky
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Alexander Lubotzky served as a member of the Knesset for The Third Way party between 1996 and 1999.
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Alexander Lubotzky was born in Tel Aviv to Holocaust survivors.
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Alexander Lubotzky's father, Iser Lubotzky was a Partisan, Irgun officer and the legal advisor of Herut.
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Alexander Lubotzky studied mathematics at Bar-Ilan University during highschool, gaining a BA and continuing directly with studying for his PhD under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg.
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Alexander Lubotzky married Yardenna, a lecturer in Art History and English, in 1980.
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The couple had six children; the oldest, Asael Alexander Lubotzky, was injured severely in the Battle of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon, while serving as an officer in the IDF in the 2006 Lebanon war and after his rehabilitation became a physician.
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Alexander Lubotzky worked as a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University, becoming head of the department.
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Alexander Lubotzky has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, with visits at Columbia, Yale, NYU and ETH Zurich.
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Alexander Lubotzky holds a Maurice and Clara Weil Chair in mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Alexander Lubotzky is known for contributions to geometric group theory, the study of lattices in Lie groups, representation theory of discrete groups and Kazhdan's property, the study of subgroup growth and applications of group theory to combinatorics and computer science and error correcting codes.
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In 1992 Alexander Lubotzky was a recipient of the Sunyer i Balaguer Prize from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans for his book "Discrete Groups Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures" and again in 2002 with Dan Segal for their book "Subgroup Growth".
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Alexander Lubotzky is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics since 2003.
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Alexander Lubotzky was elected a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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In 2008 Alexander Lubotzky received the European Research Council advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders.
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In 2011 Alexander Lubotzky was chosen to be the keynote speaker at the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in New Orleans.
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Alexander Lubotzky served as a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee; Constitution, Law and Justice Committee; Status of Women Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and chaired the subcommittee on the Y2K Bug.
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Alexander Lubotzky was actively involved in setting up a solution to the conversion bill crisis via the Ne'eman Commission, working to avoid a conflict between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora.
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Alexander Lubotzky co-drafted a comprehensive proposal for a new covenant for religion-state affairs in Israel with MK Yossi Beilin.
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In 2015 Alexander Lubotzky received the European Research Council advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming one of the only researchers receiving the grant twice.
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Alexander Lubotzky gave a Plenary lecture in the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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In 2021 Alexander Lubotzky received the European Research Council advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming the only researcher receiving the advanced grant three times.
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In 2015 Alexander Lubotzky received the European Research Council advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming one of the only researchers receiving the grant twice.
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Alexander Lubotzky gave a Plenary lecture in the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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In 2021 Alexander Lubotzky received the European Research Council advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming the only researcher receiving the advanced grant three times.