Aise Johan de Jong

Aise Johan de Jong (born 30 January 1966)[1] is a Dutch mathematician born in Belgium. He currently is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests include arithmetic geometry and algebraic geometry.

Aise Johan de Jong
Born (1966-01-30) 30 January 1966
Bruges, Belgium[1]
Nationality Dutch
Alma materRadboud University Nijmegen
Leiden University
AwardsCole Prize (2000)
EMS Prize (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorFrans Oort
Joseph H. M. Steenbrink
Doctoral studentsKiran Kedlaya

Education

De Jong attended high school in The Hague, obtained his master's degree at Leiden University and earned his doctorate at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1992, under supervision of Frans Oort and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.[2]

Career

In 1996, de Jong developed his theory of alterations which was used by Fedor Bogomolov and Tony Pantev (1996) and Dan Abramovich and de Jong (1997) to prove resolution of singularities in characteristic 0 and to prove a weaker result for varieties of all dimensions in characteristic p which is strong enough to act as a substitute for resolution for many purposes.[3][4][5]

In 2005, de Jong started the Stacks Project, "an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them."[6] The book that the project has generated currently runs to more than 6,000 pages as of March 2018.[7]

Awards and honors

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[8] He won the Cole Prize in 2000 for his theory of alterations.[1] In the same year, De Jong became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9]

Personal life

De Jong lives in New York City with his wife, Cathy O'Neil, and their three sons.[10]

Selected works
  • De Jong, A. J. (1996). "Smoothness, semi-stability and alterations". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 83: 51–93. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.39.7544. doi:10.1007/bf02698644.
  • The Stacks Project

References
  1. 2000 Cole Prize
  2. Aise Johan de Jong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. de Jong, A. J. (1996), "Smoothness, semi-stability and alterations", Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math., 83: 51–93, doi:10.1007/BF02698644
  4. Bogomolov, Fedor A.; Pantev, Tony G. (1996), "Weak Hironaka theorem", Mathematical Research Letters, 3 (3): 299–307, arXiv:alg-geom/9603019, doi:10.4310/mrl.1996.v3.n3.a1
  5. Abramovich, D; de Jong, A. J. (1997), "Smoothness, semistability, and toroidal geometry", Journal of Algebraic Geometry, 6 (4): 789–801, arXiv:alg-geom/9603018, Bibcode:1996alg.geom..3018A, MR 1487237
  6. "The Stacks Project » About". columbia.edu. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. Johan de Jong; et al. The Stacks Project (PDF). Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  8. de Jong, A. J. (1998). "Barsotti-Tate groups and crystals". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 259–265.
  9. "Aise de Jong". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  10. "mathbabe.org about page". Retrieved 25 July 2013.


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