George Lusztig

George Lusztig
Born	1946 Timişoara, Romania
Nationality	Romanian American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Princeton University University of Bucharest
Doctoral advisor	Michael Atiyah William Browder
Doctoral students	Corrado de Concini Ian Grojnowski Nigel O'Brian
Notable awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008) Cole Prize (1985)

George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig, 1946), is a Romanian American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor with the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.

Born in Timişoara, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. He left Romania for the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operators, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University, under the direction of William Browder.

Lusztig worked for almost seven years at the University of Warwick. His involvement at the university encompassed a Research Fellowship, (1971–72); lecturer in Mathematics, (1972–74); and Professor of Mathematics, (1974–78). In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT. He is known for his work on representation theory, in particular for algebraic groups. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the Deligne–Lusztig variety and the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.

In 1985, Lusztig won the Cole Prize (Algebra). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 and received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2008.

External links

• George Lusztig at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• George Lusztig's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Carter, Roger W., A survey of the work of George Lusztig, Nagoya Mathematical Journal 182 (2006), pp. 1–45.
• George Lusztig's entry in the International Who's Who.