Search:   Advanced Search   Gallery   About Us   Contact Us   עברית   Supreme Court Deputy-President Eliezer Rivlin (ret.) Joins Hebrew University Faculty of Law Not just our cars, but also living organisms need antifreeze to survive in the cold Nobel laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler to lecture, receive award at Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research Learn in Israel, Heal the World: Public health leaders from 20 countries will spend nine days learning and exchanging ideas in Jerusalem Music on our Minds: international conference on music and the brain will mix science and concerts German foundation awards two €250,000 prizes to Hebrew University researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Yoram Bilu to receive Israel Prize in sociological and anthropological research How to cut down on crime? Focus police in concentrated ‘hot spots,’ says Hebrew University criminologist Healing the world: 70 graduates of International Master’s in Public Health program to attend 2nd alumni workshop, reunion in Jerusalem It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…. Hebrew U?   25 January, 2012 2012 Israel Prize for Mathematics and Computer Science goes to Hebrew University's Prof. David Kazhdan 2012 Israel Prize winner Prof. David Kazhdan Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar announced on January 23 that the 2012 Israel Prize for Mathematics and Computer Science will go to Prof. David Kazhdan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University's Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Kazhdan will receive the prize for his important contributions to group theory research. Established in 1953, the Israel Prize is awarded to Israeli citizens or organizations that have displayed excellence in their field or contributed significantly to Israeli culture. The award committee, headed by computer scientist and Israel Prize recipient Prof. Michael Rabin, called Prof. Kazhdan ''one of the world's leading mathematicians in recent decades'' and noted his important contributions to group theory, a cornerstone of mathematics with applications in fields such as quantum theory and computer science. Prof. Kazhdan will receive the award on April 26 at an Israel Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem attended by Israel's president, prime minister, Supreme Court president and other national leaders. Since 2002 Prof. Kazhdan has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University's Einstein Institute of Mathematics. Born in Moscow in 1946, he studied and conducted research at Moscow University before moving in 1975 to the United States, where he taught at Harvard University. Professor Kazhdan held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1990 to 1995, was appointed to the American Academy of Sciences in 1990, was made a Fellow of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2006, became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and won the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics in 2010. The Einstein Institute of Mathematics is part of the Hebrew University's Faculty of Science, which encompasses research institutes and teaching departments in the major fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences, together with a Science Teaching Unit and a School of Engineering and Computer Science. Members of the Faculty have won the Israel Prize, Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Fermat Prize in Mathematics, Turing Award, Wolf Prize and Rothschild Prize, among others.
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