Alexander Kirillov Jr. Explained

Alexander Kirillov Jr. should not be confused with Alexandre Kirillov.

Alexander Alexandrovich Kirillov Jr. (Russian: Александр Александрович Кириллов) is a Russian-born American mathematician, working in the area of representation theory and Lie groups. He is a son of Russian mathematician Alexandre Kirillov.

Biography

Kirillov received his master's degree from Moscow State University in 1989 and Ph.D from Yale University in 1995. He is currently a professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Kirillov is a teacher of the project School Nova, trying to establish traditions of the Russian Mathematical Schools on American soil.

He is also a member of the international volunteer organization Rubikus.HelpUA that helps Ukrainian refugees stranded in Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to evacuate to EU.^[1]

External links

• Kirillov's homepage
• Kirillov's page on the SchoolPlus project
• Alexander Kirillov on the Mathematical Genealogy Project
• Kirillov's page on the SchoolNova project

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Берите меня и убивайте, я украинка!" История Ирины Мельниковой, которая помогала беженцам. ru. "Take and kill me, I'm Ukrainian!" The story of Iryna Melnikova, who helped refugees. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Svetlana Prokopyeva. 2022-09-24.