James McKernan
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McKernan in 2006 | |
Born | (1964-03-19) 19 March 1964 (age 60) London, England, UK |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Harvard University Trinity College, Cambridge |
Awards | Cole Prize (2009) Clay Research Award (2007) Breakthrough Prize (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | MIT University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, San Diego |
Doctoral advisor | Joe Harris |
James McKernan FRS (born 1964) is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 2007 until 2013.
Education
McKernan was educated at The Campion School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.[1] His dissertation, On the Hyperplane Sections of a Variety in Projective Space, was supervised by Joe Harris.[2]
Recognition
McKernan was the joint winner of the Cole Prize in 2009,[3][4] and joint recipient of the Clay Research Award in 2007.[5] Both honors were received jointly with his colleague Christopher Hacon. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry".[6] He was the joint winner (with Christopher Hacon) of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular his proof of the finite generation of the canonical ring, the existence of flips and the boundedness of varieties of log general type".[7]
References
- ^ 'Cambridge University Tripos results', Times, 4 July 1985.
- ^ James McKernan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Christopher Hacon and James McKernan Receive 2009 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra". American Mathematical Society. 6 January 2009.
- ^ "Mathematics Professor Receives Cole Prize". University of California, Santa Barbara. 9 February 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "Clay Research Award, 2007". Clay Mathematics Institute. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010.
- ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 3 November 2019
External links
- Official website
- Citation for 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra
- The work of Hacon and McKernan
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- Ian Agol (2016)
- Jean Bourgain (2017)
- Christopher Hacon, James McKernan (2018)
- Vincent Lafforgue (2019)
- Alex Eskin (2020)
- Martin Hairer (2021)
- Takuro Mochizuki (2022)
- Daniel A. Spielman (2023)
- Simon Brendle (2024)
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- Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen, Edward Witten (2012)
- Special: Stephen Hawking, Peter Jenni, Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS), Michel Della Negra, Tejinder Virdee, Guido Tonelli, Joseph Incandela (CMS) and Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
- Alexander Polyakov (2013)
- Michael Green and John Henry Schwarz (2014)
- Saul Perlmutter and members of the Supernova Cosmology Project; Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess and members of the High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
- Special: Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss and contributors to LIGO project (2016)
- Yifang Wang, Kam-Biu Luk and the Daya Bay team, Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND team, Kōichirō Nishikawa and the K2K / T2K team, Arthur B. McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team, Takaaki Kajita and Yōichirō Suzuki and the Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
- Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger, Cumrun Vafa (2017)
- Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David Spergel (2018)
- Special: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
- Charles Kane and Eugene Mele (2019)
- Special: Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
- The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
- Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel (2021)
- Special: Steven Weinberg (2021)
- Hidetoshi Katori and Jun Ye (2022)
- Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter W. Shor (2023)
- John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov (2024)
- Cornelia Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis C. Cantley, Hans Clevers, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander, Charles Sawyers, Robert Weinberg, Shinya Yamanaka and Bert Vogelstein (2013)
- James P. Allison, Mahlon DeLong, Michael N. Hall, Robert S. Langer, Richard P. Lifton and Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
- Alim Louis Benabid, Charles David Allis, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
- Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, John Hardy, Helen Hobbs and Svante Pääbo (2016)
- Stephen J. Elledge, Harry F. Noller, Roeland Nusse, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Huda Zoghbi (2017)
- Joanne Chory, Peter Walter, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, Don W. Cleveland (2018)
- C. Frank Bennett and Adrian R. Krainer, Angelika Amon, Xiaowei Zhuang, Zhijian Chen (2019)
- Jeffrey M. Friedman, Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Arthur L. Horwich, David Julius, Virginia Man-Yee Lee (2020)
- David Baker, Catherine Dulac, Dennis Lo, Richard J. Youle [de] (2021)
- Jeffery W. Kelly, Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer (2022)
- Clifford P. Brangwynne, Anthony A. Hyman, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Emmanuel Mignot, Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
- Carl June, Michel Sadelain, Sabine Hadida, Paul Negulescu, Fredrick Van Goor, Thomas Gasser, Ellen Sidransky and Andrew Singleton (2024)
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