Christopher Hacon
Christopher Derek Hacon FRS (born 14 February
1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US Christopher Hacon
FRS
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 Hacon at Oberwolfach in 2008
supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld. Born Christopher Derek Hacon
14 February 1970
Manchester, England
Awards and honors Nationality British
Italian
In 2007, he was awarded a Clay Research Award for American
his work, joint with James McKernan, on "the
Alma mater University of California, Los
birational geometry of algebraic varieties in dimension
Angeles
greater than three, in particular, for [an] inductive
Spouse Aleksandra Jovanovic-Hacon
proof of the existence of flips." [2]
Children Stefan Jovanovic-Hacon, Ana
In 2009, he was awarded the Cole Prize for Jovanovic-Hacon, Aleksandar
outstanding contribution to algebra, along with (Sasha) Jovanovic-Hacon,
McKernan.[3] Kristina Jovanovic-Hacon,
Daniela Jovanovic-Hacon, Marko
He was an invited speaker at the International Jovanovic-Hacon
Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad, on
Awards Clay Research Award (2007)
the topic of "Algebraic Geometry."[4]
Cole Prize (2009)
In 2011, he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize Feltrinelli Prize (2011)
in Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications by Italy's Breakthrough Prize (2018)
prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.[5] Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American
Mathematical Society.[6] Institutions University of Utah
Thesis Seshadri Constants of Ample
In 2012, he became a Simons Investigator.[7] Vector Bundles Divisors on
Principally Polarized Abelian
In 2015, he won the American Mathematical Society Varieties (1998)
Moore Prize.[8]
In 2017, he was elected to the American Academy of Doctoral Robert Lazarsfeld
Arts and Sciences.[9] advisor
In 2017, he won the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (with James McKernan).[10]
In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2019, he was elected to the Royal Society.[11]
References
1. As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vitae (http://www.math.utah.edu/~hacon/cv.pdf)
2. "Clay Research Awards" (http://www.claymath.org/research). Clay Mathematics Institute.
3. "2009 Cole Prize in Algebra" (https://www.ams.org/notices/200904/rtx090400494p.pdf)
(PDF).
4. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897" (https://web.archive.org/web/201711080121
53/http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php). International
Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original (http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/
Speakers/SortedByCongress.php) on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
5. "Utah Mathematician Awarded Italy's Top Scientific Prize" (https://maa.org/news/math-news/
utah-mathematician-awarded-italys-top-scientific-prize). Mathematical Association of
America. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (https://www.ams.org/profession/fellow
s-list), retrieved 19 January 2013.
7. Simons Investigators Awardees (https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-physical-sc
iences/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees/), The Simons Foundation
8. AMS Moore Prize (https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/ams-prizes/moore-prize),
retrieved 1 December 2015.
9. 2017 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (https://www.amacad.org/cont
ent/members/newFellows.aspx?s=a), retrieved 1 December 2017.
10. Breakthrough Prize (https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3817), retrieved 12 April
2017.
11. "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |
Royal Society" (https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/04/royal-society-announces-2019-fellow
s/). royalsociety.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
External links
Christopher Hacon (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=36635) at the Mathematics
Genealogy Project
Website of University of Utah (http://www.math.utah.edu/~hacon/)
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