Robert Lazarsfeld

Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld ( born April 15, 1953 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry.

Lazarsfeld is the son of the sociologist Paul Felix Lazarsfeld. He studied at Harvard University ( BA 1975) and in 1980 from Brown University with William Fulton PhD ( Branched coverings of projective space). 1980 to 1983 he was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard and 1981/ 82 at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1983 he was assistant professor, associate professor in 1984 and as of 1987 professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1997 he is professor at the University of Michigan since 2007, when Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto ( linear series on algebraic varieties ). 1984 to 1987 he was a Sloan Fellow, 1985-1990 Presidential Young Investigator, 1998/99 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and 2005 Colloquium Lecturer of the AMS ( How polynomials vanish: Singularities, integrals, and ideals ), whose fellow he is.

His doctoral Christopher Hacon heard.

1998 to 2004 he was editor of the Journal of Algebraic Geometry and 2002-2007 of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society from 2007 to 2009 and its Managing Editor. Since 2012 he is the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.

Writings

• Positivity in Algebraic Geometry, 2 volumes, results of mathematics and its applications, Springer Verlag 2004