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1081: 1085: 40: 733:, Brazil. In 2021 Lubotzky received the European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming the only researcher receiving the advanced grant three times. In 2014, he was elected to the 629:(MAA) in New Orleans. Lubotzky's keynote address in front of the conference's 6,000 attendees marked the first time that an Israeli was the keynote speaker at one of these conferences. In 2012 he was a visiting researcher at 760:, Brazil. In 2021 Lubotzky received the European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant for exceptional established research leaders, becoming the only researcher receiving the advanced grant three times. 1471: 1146: 1466: 1461: 1251: 1178: 714:
hosted a conference (Midrasha) from 5 November through 11 November 2016, with scholars from around the world convening to celebrate his work, impact, and collaborations.
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Prize from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans for his book "Discrete Groups Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures" and again in 2002 with
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a year long program on "Pro-finite groups and the congruence subgroup problem". In 2006, he got an honorary degree from the
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national service as a captain officer in a special intelligence and communication unit. He studied mathematics at
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Hebrew U. ties with Oxford University in number of new European Research Council grants in past two years
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in 1990. In the years 1994–1996 Lubotzky was the chairman of Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities add five new researchers to its prestigious ranks
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities add five new researchers to its prestigious ranks
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As an MK, Lubotzky was mainly known for his compromise proposals on religious issues and
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Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and chaired the subcommittee on the
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in March 1996, he chaired its secretariat and was elected to the Knesset in the
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for the best Israeli mathematician/computer scientist under the age of 40
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The 20th Midrasha Mathematicae celebrating Alex Lubotzky's 60th Birthday
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Prof. Alexander Lubotzky. Bridging the abstract and the applicable
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World famous Israeli mathematician to receive 2018 Israel Prize
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World famous Israeli mathematician to receive 2018 Israel Prize
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for their book "Subgroup Growth". In 2002 he has received the
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for his accomplishments in mathematics and computer science.
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Varieties of representations of finitely generated groups
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Discrete groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Reassures
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Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Discrete groups, expanding graphs and invariant measures
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Pro-finite groups and the congruence subgroup problem
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Lubotzky gave a 721:, for mathematics. Lubotzky gave a 643: 627:Mathematical Association of America 529:. He is known for contributions to 371: 13: 833: 480: 14: 1538: 1497:Centre Party (Israel) politicians 1381: 1055:Einstein Institute of Mathematics 598:in 2005. In 2005-6 He led in the 523:Einstein Institute of Mathematics 426:. After school, Lubotzky did his 422:officer and the legal advisor of 737:. In 2015 Lubotzky received the 703:. In 2015 Lubotzky received the 469:in Lebanon, while serving as an 182:Bergman Memorial Prize (1980–1); 1337: 1300: 1288: 1272: 1261: 1245: 1233: 1217: 1199: 1188: 1172: 1113:, vol. 52 (2005), no. 7, p. 764 1065:Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Awarded 1025:From the Wilderness and Lebanon 699:In 2014, he was elected to the 610:for his contribution to Modern 382:. 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Index

Alexander Lubotsky

Knesset
The Third Way
Tel Aviv
Asael Lubotzky
Bar Ilan University
Geometric group theory
Lie groups
Kazhdan's property (T)
subgroup growth
combinatorics
computer science
expander graphs
error correcting codes
Erdős Prize
Sunyer i Balaguer
ISI highly cited researcher
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Chicago
Hebrew University
European Research Council
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
European Research Council
Israel Prize
European Research Council
Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Hebrew University
Stanford

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