Regular biography
Dr Alex Sherman is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of New South Wales. Prior to his current position, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr Sherman completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. His research interests include topics in mathematics, with a focus on areas such as Lie superalgebras and supersymmetric spaces. He has contributed to various academic journals, including the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Transformation Groups, and International Mathematics Research Notices.
Scholar-generated biography
Alexander Sherman is a researcher at the University of New South Wales specializing in representation theory. His work explores advanced topics such as AF algebras, Lie superalgebras, and supervarieties. He has contributed to the study of spherical and symmetric supervarieties, the Duflo–Serganova functor, and the Cartan–Helgason theorem for supersymmetric pairs. His research also includes homological vector fields, quasireductive Lie superalgebras, and the structure of supergroups. Sherman's publications highlight the interplay between algebraic structures and representation theory, with a focus on symmetries and decomposition theorems. His work has implications for understanding the representation theory of Lie superalgebras and their applications in mathematical physics.