Christopher Hacon | |
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Born | Christopher Derek Hacon 14 February 1970 Manchester, England |
Nationality | British Italian American |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Spouse | Aleksandra Jovanovic-Hacon |
Children | Stefan Jovanovic-Hacon, Ana Jovanovic-Hacon, Aleksandar (Sasha) Jovanovic-Hacon, Kristina Jovanovic-Hacon, Daniela Jovanovic-Hacon, Marko Jovanovic-Hacon |
Awards | Clay Research Award (2007) Cole Prize (2009) Feltrinelli Prize (2011) Breakthrough Prize (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Utah |
Thesis | Seshadri Constants of Ample Vector Bundles Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Lazarsfeld |
Christopher Derek Hacon FRS (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US 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 supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld.