Regular biography
Lior Silberman is a Faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at The University of British Columbia. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard University. His research interests include number theory, automorphic forms, topology, harmonic analysis, metric geometry, and group actions. He is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at UBC. Contact him at lior@math.ubc.ca.
Scholar-generated biography
Lior Silberman is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Automorphic Forms and Metric Geometry. His research explores deep connections between number theory, geometry, and analysis, with a focus on spectral theory, quantum unique ergodicity, and the geometry of locally symmetric spaces. He has contributed to the study of embeddings, Poincaré inequalities, and the behavior of Hecke eigenfunctions on division algebras. His work also includes investigations into homogeneous length functions, entropy bounds, and the dynamics of random walks on groups. Silberman's publications often intersect with topics in geometric group theory and harmonic analysis, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to mathematical problems.