Yuriy Drozd

Yuriy Drozd
Born	(1944-10-15) 15 October 1944 (age 80) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Awards	State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fields	mathematics, algebra, representation theory, algebraic geometry
Institutions	Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Igor Shafarevich
Doctoral students	Volodymyr Mazorchuk

Yuriy Drozd (Ukrainian: Юрій Анатолійович Дрозд; born October 15, 1944) is a Ukrainian mathematician working primarily in algebra. He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Biography

Drozd graduated from Kyiv University in 1966, pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1969. His PhD dissertation On Some Questions of the Theory of Integral Representations (1970) was supervised by Igor Shafarevich.^[1]

From 1969 to 2006 Drozd worked at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Kyiv University (at first as lecturer, then as associate professor and full professor). From 1980 to 1998 he headed the Department of Algebra and Mathematical Logic. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Department of Algebra and Topology (until 2014 - the Department of Algebra) of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.^[2] His doctoral students include Volodymyr Mazorchuk.^[1]

Since 2022, Drozd has taught at Harvard University.^[3]

References

1. "Yurii Anatolijevych Drozd". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
2. "Drozd Yurii Anatolijevych". Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
3. ""Yuriy Drozd"". Harvard University Mathematics Department. Retrieved September 23, 2023.

External links

• Personal site.
• Oberwolfach Photo Collection.
• Yuriy Drozd, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry (course lecture notes, University of Kaiserslautern).
• Yuriy Drozd, Vector Bundles over Projective Curves.
• Yuriy Drozd, General Properties of Surface Singularities.
• Drozd, Yuriy; Kirichenko, Vladimir (1994). Finite-Dimensional Algebras. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-76244-4.