Vadim Schechtman

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Vadim V. Schechtman (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian mathematician who teaches in Toulouse, France.

Education and career
- He earned his PhD in 1979 at Moscow State University under Evgeny Golod.
- In the 1980s he worked at Moscow State University, in the 1990s at Stony Brook University, and he is currently a professor at Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III).

Research
- Schechtman works in algebraic geometry, quantum groups, and mathematical physics.
- He is known for work in motivic cohomology, hypergeometric solutions, and vertex algebras.
- He has collaborated with notable mathematicians such as Alexander Beilinson and Alexander Varchenko.
- He gave an Invited Speaker talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002 on vertex algebras attached to algebraic varieties.

Selected publications (highlights)
- 1987: Beilinson, MacPherson, Schechtman, “Notes on Motivic Cohomology,” Duke Mathematical Journal.
- 1988: Beilinson & Schechtman, “Determinant bundles and Virasoro algebras,” Communications in Mathematical Physics.
- 1990: Beilinson, Varchenko, Goncharov, Schechtman, “Projective Geometry and K-theory,” Algebra i Analiz.
- 1990: Beilinson, Goncharov, Schechtman, Varchenko, “Aomoto dilogarithms, mixed Hodge structures and motivic cohomology of pairs of triangles on the plane,” GrothendieckFestschrift.
- 1990: Schechtman & Varchenko, “Hypergeometric solutions of Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations,” Letters in Mathematical Physics.
- 1991: Schechtman & Varchenko, “Arrangement of hyperplanes and Lie algebra homology,” Inventiones Mathematicae.
- 1991: Schechtman & Varchenko, “Quantum groups and homology of local systems,” in Algebraic Geometry and Analytic Geometry (ICM 90 Satellite Conference Tokyo).
- 1994: Feigin, Schechtman, Varchenko, “On algebraic equations satisfied by hypergeometric correlators in WZW models, Part 1,” Communications in Mathematical Physics.
- 1998: Factorizable Sheaves and Quantum Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1691.
- 2006: Bezrukavnikov, Finkelberg, Schechtman, pbk reprint of Factorizable Sheaves and Quantum Groups, Springer.
- 2011: Schechtman, “Pentagramma Mirificum and elliptic functions,” arXiv.