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Lawrence Man Hou Ein (born 18 November 1955) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.


Education and career

Lawrence Ein received in 1976 his bachelor's degree from
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and in 1981 his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
under the direction of
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with thesis ''Stable vector bundles on projective spaces in'' char ''p > 0'' (which was published in ''
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''). For the academic year 1981–1982 he was an
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
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. From 1982 to 1984 he was a
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at
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. He became from 1984 to 1987 an assistant professor, from 1987 to 1989 an associate professor, and from 1989 to the present a full professor at the
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. He has been a visiting professor at the
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, UCLA, the
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,
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, the
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, and the MSRI in Berkeley. Ein has served on the editorial boards of the Transactions and Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society from 1995 to 2003,
Communications in Algebra ''Communications in Algebra'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering algebra, including commutative algebra, ring theory, module theory, non-associative algebra (including Lie algebras and Jordan algebras), group theory, and algebr ...
from 1995 to the present,
Geometriae Dedicata ''Geometriae Dedicata'' is a mathematical journal, founded in 1972, concentrating on geometry and its relationship to topology, group theory and the theory of dynamical systems. It was created on the initiative of Hans Freudenthal in Utrecht, the ...
from 2004 to 2013, and
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from 2004 to the present. Ein was a Sloan Fellow from 1986 to 1989. He was an Invited Speaker of the
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in 2006 in Madrid. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.


Selected publications

* *with Aaron Bertram and Robert Lazarsfeld: *with Aaron Bertram and R. Lazarsfeld: *with R. Lazarsfeld: *with R. Lazarsfeld: *with
Jean-Pierre Demailly Jean-Pierre Demailly (25 September 1957 – 17 March 2022) was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences. Early life and e ...
and R. Lazarsfeld: *with R. Lazarsfeld and
Karen E. Smith Karen Ellen Smith (born 1965 in Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in ...
: *with Tommaso de Fernex: *with R. Lazarsfeld: *with R. Lazarsfeld:


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ein, Lawrence 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Illinois Chicago faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Sloan Research Fellows Algebraic geometers 1955 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty