Henri Darmon

Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory. He works on Hilbert's 12th problem[1] and its relation with the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He is currently a James McGill Professor of Mathematics at McGill University.

Henri Darmon
Born (1965-10-22) 22 October 1965
Paris, France
Nationality Canada
Alma materHarvard University
McGill University
AwardsCoxeter–James Prize (1998)
Ribenboim Prize (2002)
Cole Prize in Number Theory (2017)
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMcGill University
Doctoral advisorBenedict Gross

He received his B.Sc from McGill University in 1987 and his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1991[1] under supervision of Benedict Gross.[2] From 1991 to 1996, he held positions in Princeton University.[3] Since 1994, he has been a professor at McGill University.[3]

He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.[1] In 2008, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's John L. Synge Award.[4] He received the 2017 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory "for his contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves and modular forms"[5], and the 2017 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize[6], which is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences.

References
  1. Professor Darmon's profile at science.ca
  2. Henri Darmon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. http://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/cv/cv.html
  4. "John L. Synge Award". Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13.
  5. 2017 Cole Prize in Number Theory
  6. http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixCRMFieldsPIMS/prixCFP17_an.shtml
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