John Harnad

John Harnad
Born Budapest, Hungary
Residence Montréal, Canada
Citizenship Canadian
Alma mater McGill University, University of Oxford
Known for Dimensional reduction, spectral Darboux coordinates, soliton correlation matrix, Harnad duality, convolution flows, weighted Hurwitz numbers
Awards CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Scientific career
Fields Mathematical Physics
Institutions Concordia University, Centre de recherches mathématiques
Thesis Topics in hadronic scattering (1972)
Doctoral advisor John Clayton Taylor
Doctoral students Luc Vinet
Influences Albert Einstein, Eugene Wigner, Hermann Weyl, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jacobi, Leonardo da Vinci
Website www.crm.umontreal.ca/~harnad/

John Harnad (born Hernád János) is a Hungarian-born mathematical physicist. He did his undergraduate studies at McGill University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1972) under the supervision of John C. Taylor. His research is on integrable systems, gauge theory and random matrices.

He is currently Director of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at the Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University. He is an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics [1] and was a long-time visiting member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study .[2]

His work has had a strong impact in several domains of mathematical physics, and his publications are very widely cited [3] [4]. He has made fundamental contributions on: geometrical and topological methods in gauge theory, classical and quantum integrable systems, the spectral theory of random matrices, isomonodromic deformations, the bispectral problem, integrable random processes, transformation groups and symmetries.

In 2006, he was recipient of the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics [5] [6] "For his deep and lasting contributions to the theory of integrable systems with connections to gauge theory, inverse scattering and random matrices".

References

  1. ↑ Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
  2. ↑ Advanced Study Scholars
  3. ↑ Scientific publications of John Harnad on INSPIRE-HEP
  4. ↑ Citations of scientific publications of John Harnad on Google Scholar
  5. ↑ 2006 CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
  6. ↑ CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics – Previous Winners
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