Simon Donaldson

Simon Donaldson
Donaldson in 2009
Born
Simon Kirwan Donaldson

(1957-08-20) 20 August 1957 (age 67)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge (BA)
Worcester College, Oxford (DPhil)
Known forTopology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds
Donaldson theory
Donaldson theorem
Donaldson–Thomas theory
Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem
K-stability
K-stability of Fano varieties
Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture
AwardsJunior Whitehead Prize (1985)
Fields Medal (1986)
Royal Medal (1992)
Crafoord Prize (1994)
Pólya Prize (1999)
King Faisal International Prize (2006)
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008)
Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009)
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
Oswald Veblen Prize (2019)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsTopology
InstitutionsImperial College London
Stony Brook University
Institute for Advanced Study
Stanford University
University of Oxford
ThesisThe Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds (1983)
Doctoral advisorMichael Atiyah
Nigel Hitchin
Doctoral studentsOscar Garcia Prada
Dominic Joyce
Dieter Kotschick
Graham Nelson
Paul Seidel
Ivan Smith
Gábor Székelyhidi
Richard Thomas
Michael Thaddeus

Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York,[1] and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.

  1. ^ "Simon Donaldson, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics".