Jan Trlifaj (born 30 December 1954) is a Czech mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Charles University whose research interests include commutative algebra, homological algebra and representation theory.Personal Profile of Prof. Jan Trlifaj at Department of Algebra, Charles University in Prague
Career and research Jan Trlifaj studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, from which he received MSc. in 1979, Ph.D. in 1989 under Ladislav Bican.Jan Trlifaj at the Mathematics Genealogy Project and Prof. of Mathematics in the field Algebra and number theory in 2009.
In the academic year 1994/95 he had the position as Postdoctoral Fellow of the Royal Society at Department of Mathematics at University of Manchester. In Fall 1998 he received the J.W.Fulbright Scholarship at the Department of Mathematics, University California at Irvine. During Fall 2002 and 2006 he was a visiting professor at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona. Since 1990, he has completed numerous short term visiting appointments and given over 100 invited lectures at conferences and seminars worldwide. Jan Trlifaj's Personal Page: Lectures
Since 2017, he is Fellow of Learned Society of the Czech Republic. , Fellows of the Learned Society: Jan Trlifaj
He served in the organizing committee of 18th International Conference on Representations of Algebras (ICRA 2018), held for 250 participants from 34 countries in August 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic., Representation Theory and Beyond, 2020
He has been elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2020, for contributions to homological algebra and tilting theory for non finitely generated modules. 2020 Class of Fellows of the AMS
He serves as Member of the Science board for Neuron prize that is awarded to best Czech scientists by Neuron Endowment Fund., Neuron Prize Scientific panel
Selected publications
Papers 1994: 1996: 2001: (with Paul C. Eklof), (with Saharon Shelah) 2007: (with Jan Šťovíček) 2012: (with Dolors Herbera), (with Sergio Estrada, Pedro A. Guil Asensio, and Mike Prest) 2014: (with Lidia Angeleri Hügel, David Pospíšil, and Jan Šťovíček) 2016: (with Alexander Slávik)
Books 2006, 2012: Approximations and Endomorphism Algebras of Modules, de Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics 41, Vol. 1 - Approximations, Vol. 2 - Predictions, W. de Gruyter Berlin - Boston, xxviii + 972 pp. (with Rüdiger Göbel)
Awards and distinctions Prize of the Dean of MFF for the best monograph 2006 Report from the 2nd meeting of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 2007 MFF UK Silver medal at the Sexagennial anniversary , The list of 40 awardees, 60 years of MFF UK MATFYZ – synonymum pro excelenci ve vědě již 60 let Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2020List of Fellows American Mathematical Society
References
External links
Personal website