Christopher Hacon

Christopher Hacon
Christopher Hacon at Oberwolfach in 2008
Born Christopher Derek Hacon
(1970-02-14) 14 February 1970
Manchester, England
Nationality British
Italian
American
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Children Stefan Jovanovic-Hacon, Ana Jovanovic-Hacon, Aleksandar (Sasha) Jovanovic-Hacon, Kristina Jovanovic-Hacon, Daniella 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

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 where he holds a Presidential Endowed Chair. 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 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.

References

  1. ↑ As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ "Clay Research Awards". Clay Mathematics Institute.
  3. ↑ "2009 Cole Prize in Algebra" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  6. ↑ Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
  7. ↑ AMS Moore Prize, retrieved 2015-12-01.
  8. ↑ 2017 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2017-12-1.
  9. ↑ Breakthrough Prize, retrieved 2017-4-12.


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