Christopher Hacon
| Christopher Hacon | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
Christopher Derek Hacon 14 February 1970 Manchester, England |
| Nationality |
British Italian American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Utah |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Seshadri Constants of Ample Vector Bundles Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Lazarsfeld |
| Notable awards |
Clay Research Award (2007) Cole Prize (2009) Feltrinelli Prize (2011) |
Christopher Derek Hacon (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities.[1] He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah. His research interests include algebraic geometry.
Hacon was born in Manchester, but grew up in Italy where he studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and received a degree in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1992. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, under supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld.
Awards and honors
In 2009 he was awarded the Cole Prize for outstanding contribution to algebra, along with James McKernan.[2]
He was an invited speaker in International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry."[3]
In 2011 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications by Italy's prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
In 2015 he won the American Mathematical Society Moore prize.[5]
References
- ↑ As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vitae
- ↑ 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra
- ↑ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ↑ AMS Moore Prize, retrieved 2015-12-01.