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Mark Sapir
Mark Sapir (February 12, 1957 - October 8, 2022) was a U.S. and Russian mathematician working in geometric group theory, semigroup theory and combinatorial algebra. He was a Centennial Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.
Sapir received his undergraduate degree in mathematics (diploma of higher education) from the Ural State University in Yekaterinburg (then called Sverdlovsk), Russia, in 1978. He received his PhD in mathematics (Candidate of Sciences) degree, joint from the Ural State University and Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1983, with Lev Shevrin as the advisor.
Afterwards Sapir held faculty appointments at the Ural State University, Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, before coming as a professor of mathematics to Vanderbilt University in 1997. He was appointed a Centennial Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt in 2001.
Sapir gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006. He gave an AMS Invited Address at the American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting in Huntsville, Alabama in October 2008. He gave a plenary talk at the December 2008 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society. Sapir gave the 33d William J. Spencer Lecture at the Kansas State University in November 2008. He gave the 75th KAM Mathematical Colloquium lecture at the Charles University in Prague in June 2010.
Sapir became a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Sapir founded the Journal of Combinatorial Algebra, published by the European Mathematical Society, and served as its founding editor-in-chief starting in 2016. He also was an editorial board member for the journals Groups, Complexity, Cryptology and Algebra and Discrete Mathematics. His past editorial board positions include Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, Algebra Universalis, and International Journal of Algebra and Computation (as Managing Editor).
A special mathematical conference in honor of Sapir's 60th birthday took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in May 2017.
Mark Sapir's elder daughter, Jenya Sapir, is also a mathematician; she was Maryam Mirzakhani's first (out of two) students. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics of Binghamton University.
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Mark Sapir
Mark Sapir (February 12, 1957 - October 8, 2022) was a U.S. and Russian mathematician working in geometric group theory, semigroup theory and combinatorial algebra. He was a Centennial Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.
Sapir received his undergraduate degree in mathematics (diploma of higher education) from the Ural State University in Yekaterinburg (then called Sverdlovsk), Russia, in 1978. He received his PhD in mathematics (Candidate of Sciences) degree, joint from the Ural State University and Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1983, with Lev Shevrin as the advisor.
Afterwards Sapir held faculty appointments at the Ural State University, Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, before coming as a professor of mathematics to Vanderbilt University in 1997. He was appointed a Centennial Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt in 2001.
Sapir gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006. He gave an AMS Invited Address at the American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting in Huntsville, Alabama in October 2008. He gave a plenary talk at the December 2008 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society. Sapir gave the 33d William J. Spencer Lecture at the Kansas State University in November 2008. He gave the 75th KAM Mathematical Colloquium lecture at the Charles University in Prague in June 2010.
Sapir became a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Sapir founded the Journal of Combinatorial Algebra, published by the European Mathematical Society, and served as its founding editor-in-chief starting in 2016. He also was an editorial board member for the journals Groups, Complexity, Cryptology and Algebra and Discrete Mathematics. His past editorial board positions include Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, Algebra Universalis, and International Journal of Algebra and Computation (as Managing Editor).
A special mathematical conference in honor of Sapir's 60th birthday took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in May 2017.
Mark Sapir's elder daughter, Jenya Sapir, is also a mathematician; she was Maryam Mirzakhani's first (out of two) students. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics of Binghamton University.