Lucien Szpiro#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3923 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Mathematics/Faculty/Lucien-Szpiro |
Lucien Szpiro passed away April 18, 2020.
Positions Held
- 1999 - present Distinguished Professor (CUNY Graduate Center)
- 1991 - 1999 Directeur de Recherches de Classe Exceptionnelle (CNRS at Orsay)
- 1977 - 1991 Maître de Recherches, then Directeur de Recherches (CNRS at Orsay)
- 1969 - 1977 Attaché, then Chargé de Recherches (CNRS at Paris VII)
- 1965 - 1969 Assistant, then Maître Assistant (Sorbonne)
- 1963 - 1965 Assistant Teacher (High School, Paris)
- Visiting positions: Columbia University, New York; IAS, Princeton; IMPA, Rio de Janeiro; University of Chicago; University of Todai, Tokyo; MSRI, Berkeley; TIFR, Bombay; MPI, Bonn; Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm; University of Aarhus; Brandeis University, Waltham
Fields of Scholarship
- Commutative algebra
- Projective geometry
- Geometry of surfaces
- Arithmetic geometry (discriminants and conductors of elliptic curves, rational points)
- Algebraic dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Fondation Doistau-Blutel (Académie des Sciences de Paris) "For his Work in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry and for his Contribution to G. Faltings' Proof of the Mordell Conjecture."
- 1991 Directeur de Recherches de Classe Exceptionnelle (CNRS at Orsay)
- 1999 Distinguished Professorship at Graduate Center CUNY, New York
- 2014 Fellow of the AMS
