Lars Hesselholt | |
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 Hesselholt in Oberwolfach, 2018. | |
| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) Vejrumbo, Viborg Municipality, Denmark |
| Alma mater | Aarhus University |
| Awards | Sloan Fellow (1998) AMS Fellow (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Nagoya University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Topological cyclic homology (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ib Henning Madsen |
Lars Hesselholt (born September 25, 1966) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Nagoya University in Japan, as well as holding a temporary position as Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen. [1] [2] His research interests include homotopy theory, [3] algebraic K-theory, [3] and arithmetic algebraic geometry. [2]
Hesselholt was born in Vejrumbro, a village in the Viborg Municipality of Denmark. [1] He studied at Aarhus University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1988, a master's degree in 1992, and a Ph.D. in 1994; [1] his dissertation, supervised by Ib Madsen, concerned K-theory. [4] After postdoctoral studies at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 as a C.L.E. Moore instructor, and stayed at MIT as an assistant and then associate professor, before moving to Nagoya in 2008. [1] Hesselholt's wife is Japanese, and when he joined the Nagoya faculty he became the first westerner with a full professorship in mathematics in Japan. [2] [ citation needed ] He is the managing editor of the Nagoya Mathematical Journal. [5]
Hesselholt became a Sloan fellow in 1998, [6] and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. [7] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society, [8] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. [3] [9]
