Jacques Hurtubise (mathematician)

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Jacques Claude Hurtubise FRSC (born March 12, 1957) is a Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at McGill University. His research interests include moduli spaces, integrable systems, and Riemann surfaces. [1] Among other contributions, he is known for proving the Atiyah–Jones conjecture (in collaboration with Boyer, Mann, and Milgram). [2] [3]

After undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, Hurtubise became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for 1978–1981, [1] and earned a DPhil from Oxford in 1982, supervised by Nigel Hitchin, with a dissertation concerning links between algebraic geometry and differential geometry. [4] Following his DPhil, he taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1988, when he moved to McGill. He has also been director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. [5]

Hurtubise won the Coxeter–James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 1993, and was an AMS Centennial Fellow for 1993–1994. In 2004 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, [2] and in 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [6] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows. [7]

In 2022 was the recipient of the 2022 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), "for his exceptional, continued, and broad contributions to mathematics". [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-03-01.
  2. 1 2 Lectures Celebrating New Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, Fields Institute, 2004, retrieved 2015-03-01.
  3. ↑ Boyer, C. P.; Hurtubise, J. C.; Mann, B. M.; Milgram, R. J. (1 August 1992). "The Atiyah-Jones Conjecture" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 26 (2): 317–322. doi: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00286-0 . ISSN   0273-0979 . Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  4. ↑ Jacques Hurtubise at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Jacques Hurtubise, Council of Canadian Academies, retrieved 2015-03-01.
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-03-01.
  7. ↑ Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018, archived from the original on January 22, 2021, retrieved January 7, 2020
  8. ↑ Dr. Jacques Hurtubise receives 2022 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award, Canadian Mathematical Society, August 3, 2022
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