Eduard Looijenga

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Eduard Jacob Neven Looijenga (born 30 September 1948, Zaandam) [1] is a Dutch mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic groups. [2] He was a professor of mathematics at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2013. [3]

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Looijenga studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam beginning in 1965, and earned a master's degree there in 1971. He obtained a Dutch fellowship for two years of study at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France, and then returned to the University of Amsterdam, earning a Ph.D. in 1974 under the supervision of Nicolaas Kuiper. [4] [5] After postdoctoral research at the University of Liverpool, he took a faculty position at the University of Nijmegen in 1975, returned as a professor to the University of Amsterdam in 1987, and moved again to Utrecht in 1991. Since his 2013 retirement, he has also held a professorship at Tsinghua University. [4]

In 1978, Looijenga was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. [4] He became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, [2] and in 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [6] In 2013, a conference in honor of his retirement was held at Utrecht University. [3]

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References

  1. Prof. dr. E.J.N. Looijenga, 1948 - at Album Academicum, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  2. 1 2 Member profile Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , KNAW, retrieved 2015-01-26.
  3. 1 2 A singular life: in honour of Eduard Looijenga Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , Utrecht Univ., retrieved 2015-01-26.
  4. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-26.
  5. Eduard Looijenga at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-25.