Joseph Bernstein
(picture from MFO)

Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein or Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn, Hebrew: יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין‎, Russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн) (born April 18, 1945 in Moscow) is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, and he is known for his close relationships with students.

[edit] Biography

Bernstein received his PhD in 1972 under Israil Gelfand at Moscow State University and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2002 and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Some of his students include Edward Frenkel, Roman Bezrukavnikov, Alexander Braverman, and Dennis Gaitsgory, all of whom work on the geometric Langlands program. Other students are: Eitan Sayag[1], Kobi Kremnizer[2], Shamgar Gurevich[3], Ronny Hadani[4], Dmitry Gourevitch[5] and Avraham Aizenbud[6] all of them contribute to representation theory, algebraic geometry and their applications.

[edit] Awards

In 2004, Bernstein was awarded the Israel Prize, for mathematics. ^[1][2]

[edit] Publications

• Publication list
• Some pdf files of papers by Bernstein including Algebraic theory of D-modules and his notes on Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series
• Beilinson, A. A.; Bernstein, J.; Deligne, P. Faisceaux pervers. (Perverse sheaves) Analysis and topology on singular spaces, I (Luminy, 1981), 5-171, Astérisque, 100, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1982.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Bernstein-Sato polynomial
• BGG resolution
• List of Israel Prize recipients

[edit] External links

• Bernstein's home page
• Joseph Bernstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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