Oswaldo Lezama

José Oswaldo Lezama Serrano (Bucarmanaga, Colombia, 1956) is a Colombian mathematician who researches abstract algebra and specializes in noncommutative algebra. Lezama graduated from the UIS in 1978 with a B.Sc. in Mathematical Education and obtained a Ph.D in 1983 under the supervision of Zenon Ivanovich Borevich from the Saint Petersburg State University.[4] Since 1985 Lezama was a full professor at the National University of Colombia; he retired in 2020.[5]

José Oswaldo Lezama Serrano
José Oswaldo Lezama Serrano
Born1956
Bucaramanga
NationalityColombian
EducationB.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1983
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAbstract algebra
InstitutionsNational University of Colombia
ThesisThe Group of the Invertible Elements of a Semiperfect Ring (1983)
Doctoral advisorZenon Ivanovich Borevich
Websitesites.google.com/a/unal.edu.co/sac2/

Early life and education

Lezama was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He studied at the Industrial University of Santander obtaining in 1978 a B.Sc. in Mathematical Education with a Cum Laude mention. In 1976 Lezama received a scholarship to study in the Saint Petersburg State University as part of an agreement between the governments of Colombia and the URSS.[1] His Ph.D. supervisor was Zenon Ivanovich Borevich and the work was titled ″The Group of the Invertible Elements of a Semiperfect Ring″. He obtained the title in 1983.[4]

In 1984 he came back to Bucaramanga and started working as professor in the Industrial University of Santander. The next year he moved to Bogotá and since then has worked as full professor at the National University of Colombia. He held this position until 2020, year in which he retired. In 1993, Lezama received the TWAS Scholarship (Third World Academy of Sciences) as visitant professor in Trieste, Italy. That same year he also visited the University of Buenos Aires and the Instituto Argentino de Matemática under the financial support of CONICET and the second mentioned institute.[1]

Career

Since his return to Colombia, Lezama has had a very active participation in the mathematical community, taking part in national and international events as attendant, speaker and organizer. Between 1986 and 1991 started a research seminar on rings, modules and categories. As a result, in 1994 he published with the mathematician Gilma de Villamarín a book called ″Anillos Módulos y Categorías″. Until 2002 he also hosted a seminar in commutative algebra, called SAC (″Seminario de Álgebra Conmutativa″, in Spanish).[1][6]

With time his interest in noncommutative algebra grew until the mentioned seminar changed his name to SAC2 (″Seminario de Álgebra Constructiva″, in Spanish) and the research in such matter started. The first aboarded topics were noncommutative Gröbner basis and homological properties of noncommutative rings. In 2011, with his doctoral student Claudia Gallego, published for the first time the concept of skew PBW extension, which with time became his main topic of research.[1][6][7]

In 2017 Lezama received the National Award of the Colombian Mathematical Society, being the most notorious recognition of the country in the area.[2][3] In 2018 he received public attention when he published in several media an opinion article about the candidature of Sergio Fajardo to the presidency of Colombia.[8][9]

In 2020, coinciding with his year of retirement of the National University of Colombia, a book called ″Skew PBW Extensions″ was published in the editorial Springer summarizing the results obtained by Lezama and colleagues/students among the years.[7] Another notorious written work of Lezama are the called ″Cuadernos de Álgebra″ consisting on ten monographies (in Spanish) covering the basic topics of undergraduate and graduate abstract algebra, including Galois theory, algebraic geometry and homological algebra.[1][6]

Selected writings

References
  1. "Oswaldo Lezama's CvLAC".
  2. "Este bumangués es el mejor matemático del país". Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. "Ganadores Premios de Matemáticas 2017". Bogotá, Colombia. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  4. "Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  5. "Professors of the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá". Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  6. "SAC2's web page".
  7. Skew PBW Extensions. Springer. 2020.
  8. "El reclamo de ganador del Premio Nacional de Matemática a Sergio Fajardo". Bogotá, Colombia. 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  9. "Llamado de atención a Fajardo del premio nacional de matemáticas". Bogotá, Colombia. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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