Christopher Hacon

Christopher Hacon
Born	Christopher Derek Hacon 14 February 1970 (1970-02-14) (age 41) Manchester, England
Nationality	British  Italian  USA
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Utah
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Robert Lazarsfeld
Doctoral students	Gueorgui Todorov Stefano Urbinati
Notable awards	Cole Prize (2009)

Christopher Derek Hacon (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities.^[1] In 2009 he was awarded the Cole Prize for outstanding contribution to algebra, along with James McKernan.^[2] He was also awarded the Clay Research Award. In 2011 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications by Italy's prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah. 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 supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld.

References

1. ^ As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vita
2. ^ 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra

External links

• Christopher Hacon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Website of University of Utah

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Name	Hacon, Christopher
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Date of birth	14 February 1970
Place of birth	Manchester, England
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