Dimitry Leites Stockholm University

Education

• B.A., 1970 Mathematics and French, Lenin Pedagogical Institute, Moscow
  
  
• M.A., 1975 Mathematics and English, Moscow University (Thesis: "Cohomology of Lie superalgebras", Scientific advisor A. Onishchik)
  
  
• Ph.D., 1981 Mathematics, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow. (Dissertation: "Character formulas for Lie superalgebras", Sci. advisor Yu.I. Manin).

Research speciality:

supermanifold theory (representation theory, local invariants of the nonholonomic manifolds, in particular, supergravity).

Positions

1975 - 83	Junior scientific staff member, Department of Mathematics, Karelia Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk
1975 - 76	(concurrently)Lecturer, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Petrozavodsk University
1976 - 82	(concurrently) Scientific staff member, V. Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
1982	(concurrently) Docent (Associate Professor), Department of Physics and Mathematics, Yaroslavl University
1984 - 85	Docent, Moscow Institute for Railway Engineers
1986 - 87	research assistent, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
1987 - now	Docent, full professor, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
1991 - now	(concurrently) head of the laboratory "Supersymmetry theory", Inst. of New Technologies of Education, Moscow

Invited adresses and lectures:

International conferences and schools on group-theoretical methods in physics:

• Bulgaria 1976, 1980, 1984, 1987
  
  
• Finland 1991 (Turku)
  
  
• Germany 1990 (Obervolfach and SFB-170, Göttingen)
  
  
• Italy 1990 (Rapallo), 1991 (ICTP)
  
  
• USA 1989 (lake Tahoe)
  
  
• USSR: 1983 (Zvenigorod), 1985 (Yurmala, Kharkov), 1990 (Euler IMI) Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) and Protvino (Institute for High Energy Physics) yearly since 1975 till emigration in 1986; 1994, 1997-99
  
  

International conferences in mathematics:

• Novosibirsk 1989; 1991
  
  
• Mexico 1996
  
  
• Iran, Finland, Czechoslovakia 1997
  
  

Visiting professorships

• 1986, 1988 CWI (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
  
  
• 1987 Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  
  
• 1988 Max-Planck-Institute för Mathematik, Bonn, West Germany;
  
  
• Wayne State University, Department of Mathematics, Detroit, USA (distinguished professor)
  
  
• 1989 (9 months) IAS, Princeton, USA
  
  
• 1990 SFB-170, Göttingen, Germany; Euler Math. Inst. and LOMI, Leningrad, USSR
  
  
• 1991-92 Forschheimer Professor, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan Univ. and Tel Aviv University, Israel
  
  
• 1994, 1995 Beijing University; Hanoi University and Institute of Mathematics
  
  

Grants and sponsored programs

• Swedish NFR since 1988 (Senior researcher: Supermanifold theory)
  
  
• I. Bendixson grant, 1986--1988
  
  
• USA NSF grants: 1987 Research assistant at Harvard University; Institute for Advanced Study, 1989
  
  
• Special grant of Wayne State University,1988
  
  
• German Soderforschungsbereich-170, 1990,
  
  
• Teknikbrostiftelsen i Stockholm, 1999/2000
  
  

Master's theses supervised

• 1977 A. Shapovalov, Irreducible representations of Hamiltonian Lie superalgebra, Moscow University
  
  
• 1978 S. Eliseev, Irreducible representations of Lie superalgebra q(2), Moscow University, 10pp.
  
  
• V. Shander, Normal forms of vector fields on supermanifolds, Moscow University
  
  
• P. Grozman, Invariant differential operators, Moscow University, 24pp.
  
  
• E. Korkina, Gelfand-Tsetlin basis for irreducible representations of gl(2|2), Moscow University
  
  
• 1979 A. Vaintrob, New invariant differential operators, Moscow University, 24pp.
  
  
• A. Kutin, Noncommutativity of the superalgebra of complex numbers and consequences, Moscow University
  
  
• 1980 Yu. Shmelev, Irreducible representations of infinitedimensional hamiltonian Lie superalgebra, Moscow University
  
  
• A. Sergeev, Invariant polynomials on Lie superalgebras, Moscow University
  
  
• 1981 V. Serganova, Automorphisms and real forms of finite-dimensional Lie superalgebras, Moscow University
  
  
• E. Poletaeva, Affine actions of stringy superalgebras, Moscow University
  
  
• 1983 L. Tsalenko, Witt's formula for free Lie superalgebra, Moscow University
  
  
• 1985 M. Sorokin, Super Brauer group, Moscow Institute for Oil and Gas Industry
  
  
• 1998 A. Szabo and G. Toth-Wesseley, Valda problem från Moskvas matematiska olympiader, fdk, 20 pp.; C. Bergelund, pk, 10 pp.
  
  

Ph.D.Theses directed

• 1979 A. Shapovalov, Irreducible representations of finite-dimensional hamiltonian and Poisson Lie superalgebras, Dept. of Math., Moscow University
  
  
• 1983 Yu. Shmelev, Irreducible representations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Poisson Lie superalgebras, Dept. of Math., Moscow University
  
  
• 1983 P. Grozman, Invariant differential operators, Dept. of Math., Moscow University
  
  
• 1983 A. Sergeev, Invariant polynomials on Lie superalgebras, Dept. of Math., Moscow University
  
  
• 1986 Yu. Kochetkov, Differential operators invariant with respect to Lie superalgebras preserving odd canonical form, Dept. of Math., Leningrad University
  
  
• 1987 A. Vaintrob, Deformations of complex structures on supermanifolds, Dept. of Math., Moscow University
  
  
• 1988 V. Serganova, Automorphisms and real forms of simple Lie superalgebras, Dept. of Math., Leningrad University
  
  
• V. Shander, Vector fields and differential equations on supermanifolds, Dept. of Math., Voronezh University, Russia
  
  
• A. Stolin. Rational solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation, Dept. of Math., Stockholm University
  
  
• G. Vinel, Symmetric superdomains and Lie triple systems, Dept. of Math., University of Connecticut (co-advisor: W.Abikoff)
  
  
• 1992 E. Poletaeva. The local structure of classical superdomains. (co-advisor: J.L. Brylinsky), Dept. of Math., Penn. State Univ.
  
  
• F. Weinstein. Cohomology of the nilpotent subalgebras of the Virasoro algebra. Utrecht Univ., Dept. of Math., The Netherlands
  
  

Current positions of several of my students

• P. Grozman, A. Shapovalov http://www.brisdate.se
  
  
• A. Stolin http://Chalmers
  
  
• E. Poletaeva http://www.math.lth.se
  
  
• A. Korkina
  
  
• A. Vainttrob http://www.math.nmsu.edu
  
  
• V. Serganova http://www.math.berkley.edu
  
  
• V. Shander