Christopher Hacon
Christopher Derek Hacon FRS (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 where he holds a Presidential Endowed Chair. His research interests include algebraic geometry.
Christopher Hacon | |
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 Hacon at Oberwolfach in 2008 | |
| Born | Christopher Derek Hacon 14 February 1970 Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British Italian American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Spouse | Aleksandra Jovanovic-Hacon |
| Children | Stefan Jovanovic-Hacon, Ana Jovanovic-Hacon, Aleksandar (Sasha) Jovanovic-Hacon, Kristina Jovanovic-Hacon, Daniela Jovanovic-Hacon, Marko Jovanovic-Hacon |
| Awards | Clay Research Award (2007) Cole Prize (2009) Feltrinelli Prize (2011) Breakthrough Prize (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Utah |
| Thesis | Seshadri Constants of Ample Vector Bundles Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Lazarsfeld |
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 2007, he was awarded a Clay Research Award for his work, joint with James McKernan, on "the birational geometry of algebraic varieties in dimension greater than three, in particular, for [an] inductive proof of the existence of flips." [2]
In 2009, he was awarded the Cole Prize for outstanding contribution to algebra, along with McKernan.[3]
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry."[4]
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.[5]
In 2012, he became a Simons Investigator.[6]
In 2015, he won the American Mathematical Society Moore Prize.[7]
In 2017, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8]
In 2017, he won the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (with James McKernan).[9]
In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2019, he was elected to the Royal Society.[10]
References
- As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vitae
- "Clay Research Awards". Clay Mathematics Institute.
- "2009 Cole Prize in Algebra" (PDF).
- "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 19 January 2013.
- Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
- AMS Moore Prize, retrieved 1 December 2015.
- 2017 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 1 December 2017.
- Breakthrough Prize, retrieved 12 April 2017.
- "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.