Victor Kac

Positions Held:

Assistant, 1968--1971

Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building
Senior Teacher, 1971--1976

Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building
Visiting Associate Professor, 1977

M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
Associate Professor, 1978--1980

M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
Professor, 1981--present

M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.

Honors and Awards:

1981-1983 Sloan Fellowship
1981 Medal from the College de France
1986-87 Guggenheim Fellowship
1994 Wigner Medal
1998 Honorary member of Moscow Math. Society
1998 Chaire Condorcet at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
1999 Sackler fellow, IHES
2002 Simons research visiting professor, MSRI
2003 Sarojini Damadaran fellow, TIFR
2007 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 Conference on 65th birthday, Cortona, Italy
2012 IHP fellowship
2012-13 Simons Fellowship
2013 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2013 Conference on 70th birthday, Rio de Janeiro
2013 Victor Kac afternoon, IHES
2015 Steele prize for life achievement
2019-20 Simons Fellowship
2019 Sackler American fellow, IHES
2019 Foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei

Conferences organized:

Oberwolfach, Germany, 1980 and 1985
Marseille, Lumini, France, 1988
Pisa, Italy, Spring program, Infinite dimensional algebra and algebraic geometry, 1991
M.I.T., Lie theory and geometry, 1993
ESI, Vienna, Programm on representation theory, 2000
Toronto, Fields Institute, 2000
MSRI, Programm Infinite-dimensional algebras and Mathematical Physics, 2002
BIRS, working in teams programm, August 2003
ESI, Vienna, Summer school on vertex algebras, June 2005
BIRS, Focused research group, May 2006
IUM, Moscow, Transformation groups, December 2007
MSU, Moscow, Algebraic methods in integrable systems, December 2012
Centro Di Georgi, Pisa, Intensive period in Lie theory, December 2014-January 2015
ESI, Vienna, Programm on geometric representation theory, January 2017

Selected invited addresses and lecture series:

Harvard colloqium, 1977
ICM, Helsinki, 1978
Invariant theory, Bonn, 1979
AMS annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1980
Australian National University colloqium, Canberra, 1980
College de France, lecture series, 1981
Montacatini Terme, lecture series, Italy, 1982
Universite Paris 6, lecture series, 1983
Mathematical Soc of Denmark, Copenhagen, 1983
RIMS colloquium, Kyoto, 1984
The mathematical heritage of E. Cartan, Lyon, 1984
Anomalies, geometry, toplogy, Argonne, 1985
Academia Sinica, Beijing, lecture series, 1985
TIFR, Bombay, lecture series, 1985-86
Algebraic groups, Utrecht, 1987
Strings 88, Maryland, 1988
Centennial of the AMS, Providence, 1988
Colloque Dixmier, Paris, 1989
Group theoretical methods in physics, Moscow, 1990
LOMI colloquium, Leningrad, 1990
Charles University colloquium, Prague, 1990
SNS, Pisa, lecture series, 1991
Colloque Bruhat-Tits, Paris, 1991
Lezioni Leonardesche, Milan, 1991
Theoretical physics conference, Tbilisi, lecture series, 1991
Canadian Math Soc, 1991
Ecole Normale, Paris , lecture series, 1992-93
University of Amsterdam colloquium, 1993
Amici della SNS di Pisa, lecture series, 1994
Cordoba and Mendoza, lecture series, 1994
Ecole Normale, Lyon, lecture series, 1995
Quantum field theory, Dubna, Russia, 1996
Group theoretical methods in physics, Goslar, Germany, 1996
Kyoto University, lecture series, 1996
Lumini, CIRM lecture series, 1997
Frontiers in mathematics lecture series, Texas A+M University, 1997
International Congress in Math. Physics, Brisbane, Australia, 1997
Rome University graduate course, 1997
Soliton theory and geometry, Moscow, 1998
Schroedinger institute, lecture series, Vienna, 1998
Ecole Normale, Paris, lecture course, 1998
Rome University colloquium, 1998
Swedish Math. Soc, Stockholm, 1999
Visions in mathematics, Tel-Aviv, 1999
Yale University colloquium, 2000
Weisfeiler lecture, 2000
Colloquio latinoamericano, La Falda, Argentina, 2001
ICM Beijing, Plenary address, 2002
Graduate course in Beijing University, 2002
TIFR, Mumbay, lecture series, 2003
Giornata INDAM, Rome University 1, 2004
Group theoretical methods in physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 2004
Algebra day, Carleton University, 2004
Distinguished lecturer series, Weizmann Institute, 2005
Summer school in Bad Honnef, 2005
British Math. Colloquium, Newcastle, 2006
Escola de Altos Estudos course of lectures, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2007
Lie days lecture series, Cornell University, 2007
Rome University 2 colloquium, 2008
Graduate course in Rome University 1, 2008-09
Knowledge transfer lecture, Edinburgh, 2009
Centennial of J. Racah, Jerusalem, 2010
Lecture course in Buenos Aires University, 2010
Seminal interactions between mathematics and physics, Rome, 2010
Lecture course in Tsinghua University, Beijing, summer 2011
IMPA 60 lecture, October 2012
Hadamard lectures, IHES, November 2012
Solstice conference, Paris, June 2013
Mathematics and quantum physics conference, Rome, July 2013
Lecture course in Centro di Giorgi, Pisa, December 2014-January 2015
Lecture course in Max Planck Institute, Bonn, March 2015
Levi-Civita colloquium, Rome Tor Vergata, January 2016
Mathematics and Physics at crossroads, Frascatti, July 2016
Symmetries and differential equations, Istanbul, August 2017
Vertex algebras, Rome, December 2017
Group theoretical methods in physics, Prague, July 2018
Kac-Moody geometry, Besse, France, May 2019
Vertex algebras, Dubrovnik, June 2019
Integrable systems, Bologna, January, 2020
Winter school, Daibrates Switserland, February 2020.

Born:	December 19, 1943, Buguruslan, Russia
Citizenship:	U.S.A.
Education:	M.S. Moscow State University, 1965 Candidate of Sciences Moscow State University, 1968 Thesis: Simple Irreducible Graded Lie Algebras of Finite Growth

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