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Ofer Gabber

Ofer Gabber is an Israeli mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and is a researcher at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France.

born 1958Research in algebraic geometryProof of a Kac conjecturePseudo-reductive Groups

Born: 16 May 1958
Occupation: mathematician
Education: Harvard University

Ofer Gabber was born in 1958

Ofer Gabber was born on May 16, 1958. As a child he skipped two grades. He studied in a mathematics program for gifted students at Tel Aviv University and graduated from Blich High School in Ramat Gan.

At 14 he won first place in the Israeli youth mathematics olympiad held by the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1978 he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with a thesis on Azumaya algebras supervised by Barry Mazur.

That same year he joined the mathematics faculty at Tel Aviv University. In 1981 he and Victor Kac published a proof of a conjecture Kac had stated in 1968. Since 1984 he has worked at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris as a CNRS senior researcher.

His research covers algebraic geometry, number theory and representation theory. He wrote Almost Ring Theory with Lorenzo Ramero in 2003 and Pseudo-reductive Groups with Brian Conrad and Gopal Prasad in 2010.