The de Brún Centre for Computational Algebra is pleased to announce a
forthcoming public lecture ‘Asymptotic properties of finite groups and finite dimensional algebras’ at National University of Ireland, Galway, by Professor Efim Zelmanov, member of the Advisory Board of the Centre.
Professor Zelmanov is one of the greatest algebraists of modern times. In
1994 he was awarded the Fields Medal (commonly known as the Nobel Prize for mathematicians) for his solution of the Restricted Burnside Problem — a fundamental algebraic conjecture that many leading mathematicians worked on throughout the 20th century. Professor Zelmanov has also solved classical long-standing questions in the theory of Lie Algebras and Jordan algebras.
He received the Collège de France Medal in 1992, and the Andre Aizenstadt Prize in 1996. He was elected, at the age of 47, to the National Academy of Sciences, USA, becoming the youngest member of the Academy’s Mathematics division.
Professor Zelmanov holds the Rita Atkinson Endowed Chair in Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Previously he was a Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.
The lecture by Professor Walter Feit, delivered at the 1994 Fields medal
award ceremony in Zürich, contains more details..
The lecture took place in the NCBES Seminar Room, Orbsen Building.
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