Jack Sonn is a professor emeritus in the mathematics department at the Technion and an employee at GTIIT for teaching and research during autumn semester 2018.
Variants of the inverse Galois problem
Brauer groups of fields
Obtained the B.Sc. (Summa cum laude, 1967), M.Sc. (1970) and D.Sc. (1972) degrees at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1973 [professor since 1982, incumbent, Abronson Family Chair of Chemistry, since 1989]. Served as Head of the Physical Chemistry Division (19841986) and as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1989-1991), as well as on many Technion committees and at the Technion Faculty Union.
Electronic structure: Excited atoms, confined atoms, quantum dots, atoms embedded in plasmas.
Applications of q-analysis: q-bosons, q-Stirling numbers, the q-BCH formula.
Representation theory of the symmetric group. Partition identities.
