Lecture
"Motivic Cohomology: History, Current State, and Perspectives."
Tuesday 4/19, Thursday 4/21, and Friday 4/22, 3 PM, MS 6627

Andrei Suslin is a world leader in algebra whose specialty is algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. One of his best known achievements is the Merkurjev-Suslin Theorem (1982) which established the n=2 case of the conjecture of Bloch and Kato as well as the fundamental role of norm residue homomorphisms in addressing these questions. His 2000 Cole Prize was awarded for a number of recent works concerning the rapidly developing area of motivic cohomology and its relations with Bloch's Higher Chow groups, the Bloch-Kato conjecture, the homology of classical groups, and other topics.

Andrei Suslin has been Board of Trustees Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University since 1994. From 1977, the year he received his Doctor of Sciences degree from Leningrad University, he was Professor of Mathematics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Honors include: Firstprize at International Mathematical Olympiad (1967), Leninsky Komsomol Prize (highest award for scientific achievement by young scientists in the Soviet Union, 1980), and the AMS Cole Prize (the highest award in algebra given by the AMS, 2000). Suslin has been an ICM Speaker 3 times (1978, 1986 (Plenary), 1994).