Draft:Pavel Bleher

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Pavel Bleher (born September 14, 1947) is a Soviet-American mathematician, who made significant contributions to the area of mathematical physics. The research works of Bleher concern various topics including renormalization group, critical phenomena and phase transitions in statistical physics, the problem of quantum chaos, Riemann–Hilbert problem and universality in random matrix models, applications of random matrices to exact solution of the six-vertex model, and others.

Bleher won the gold medal in the VII-th International Mathematical Olympiad in Berlin in 1965. He defended his PhD in 1974 under supervision of Yakov Sinai and the Doctor of Sciences (habilitation) degree in 1984. Pavel Bleher was a Barecha Foundation Fellow 1990 and Professor at the Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990-1992.  In 1992-1994, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 1994, Bleher was Professor, and since 2005, Chancellor’s Professor at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Professor Bleher was a visiting professor and a member in many scientific centers: the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, U.K.; Service de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay, France; ETH-Zurich, Switzerland; Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, France; Courant Institute, NYU, New York; Centre de Physique Theorique, Luminy-Marseille, France; University of Rome "La Sapienza"; the Eisenbud professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley; the Simons professor at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, and others. He was an organizer and chair of many programs and conferences in mathematical physics, and he published more than 100 papers in leading mathematical and physical journals. Among his PhD students are Karl Liechty, Elmundas Zalis, Robert Mallison, Drazen Petrovic, and others.