Public Lecture: Doing excellent science in remote places

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Venue/Location: Hall 7th floor, Building T5, VNU-HUS, 334 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi

Speaker: Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

Alex Lubotzky is a mathematician working mainly in group theory and its connections with number theory, geometry, combinatorics and computer science.  He has published over 160 papers, 1 textbook, 3 research books (two of which received the Ferran Sunyer I Balaguer Prize – an international prize for research books).

He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and the Hungarian Academy of Science (2022). He has received a number of awards: the Erdos Prize (1990), the Rothschild Prize (2002), the Israel Prize (2018) and an honorary degree from the University of Chicago (2006). He has received ERC advanced grants three times (2009-2014, 2015-2020, 2021-2026). 

He served on various Israeli and international committees, was a member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) 1996-1999, and the president of the Israeli Mathematical Union (2019-2020). 

E-mail: alex.lubotzky@mail.huji.ac.il 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lubotzky 

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Registration: here (https://forms.gle/HZR5h3wVg8T1trPQ7)

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Description:

This is certainly true statistically but there are a number of exceptions. Israel is one of them. Sometimes isolation is also an advantage and not only a disadvantage.

What is the secrete of Israel which made it into the "high-tech nation"?

We will discuss it from a somewhat personal perspective with the hope of talking with the audience about the similarities and differences

between Israel and Vietnam and what can be learned from it.

Language: English