Mark Kleiner, Professor
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Mark Kleiner earned a Diploma in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1972, both from Kiev State University, with a dissertation directed by Andrei V. Roiter. From 1969 to 1978 he was section director for programming and system analysis in the Research Institute for Automation in the Construction Industry in Kiev. He was a lecturer at Massachusetts-Boston 1979-1981, a research associate at Brandeis 1979-1981, and then came to SU as assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1985 and to professor in 1992. He was a visiting scholar at Brandeis fall 1991, at Insituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico spring 1996, and at Trondheim fall 2001. Mark is interested in representations of finite-dimensional algebras, linear algebra and homological algebra, and has published or had accepted 29 research papers. He is a member of AMS, has served as a Russian translator for the AMS, and directed the Ph.D. dissertations of: Fernando Guzman (1985), Aboubakr Lbekkouri (1986), Shashidhar Jagadeeshan (1994), and Helene Tyler (2002). He has given special session talks at AMS meetings in Eugene OR 1994 and Santa Barbara 2000, at joint meetings of AMS and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana in 1995 and 2001, organized a special session with Dan Zacharia in Syracuse 1993, and gave an invited plenary lecture at an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in Seattle 1997. Mark has held an SU summer faculty fellowship 1982, an NSA grant 1989-1991, an NSF grant 1993-1995 and a US Civilian Research and Development Foundation grant 1997-1999. He was a member of the Executive Committee 1987-1989 and 1999-2001, a member of three chairperson search committees 1990-1991, 1993-1994 and 1996-1997 (chair of the first two), and a member of 5 reappointment or promotion and tenure committees. Mark has also been chair of the Mathematics Education Committee 1997-1999, since January 2002 has been associate chair for graduate studies, in the College was a member of the promotion and tenure committee 1998-2001, and in the Graduate School he has been a member of the Science subcommittee of the University Fellowship Committee 1997-2002. Mark and Lucy were married in 1975 and have two sons. Anatole graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with an AB in chemistry in 1998 and from the SUNY/Stony Brook medical school in 2002, and currently he is a resident at the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Their younger son Ralph begins his sophomore year at Princeton in Fall 2002. Lucy was a social worker for the New Americans (Russian) Resettlement and Occulturation Program from 1989 to 2002. Mark enjoys classical music and on vacations they like to travel. Source: His cv dated January 2002 and Mark’s answers to my questions. --Phil Church-- 7/10/02 |
