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. [2]

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. [3] 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. [4]

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. [5] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows. [6]

In 2022 he has been 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". [7]

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  2. 1 2 Lectures Celebrating New Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, Fields Institute, 2004, retrieved 2015-03-01.
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  6. Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
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