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David Kazhdan is an American mathematician, known for work in Representation Theory . He was born in the USSR , where his doctoral adviser was Alexandre Kirillov (doctorate 1969). He was a leading member of Israel Gelfand 's school. He is Jewish, and emigrated from the Soviet Union to take a position at Harvard University in 1975, to escape the conditions of Anti-semitism that then prevailed. (He changed his official name, from Dmitri to David, and embraced Judaism as religion, also around that time.) He is As Of 2005 a Professor both at Harvard and at the Hebrew University Of Jerusalem . He is known for many fertile collaborations: with Israel Gelfand , Victor Kac , George Lusztig (on an influential Kazhdan-Lusztig Conjecture on Verma Module s), with Grigory Margulis ( Kazhdan-Margulis Theorem ), with Yuval Flicker and S. J. Patterson on the representations of Metaplectic Group s. Kazhdan's Property (T) is now a much-studied aspect of representation theory. Kazhdan held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1990 to 1995. One of his students was Vladimir Voevodsky , a recepient of Fields Medal , a prize for young mathematicians of outstanding reputation. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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