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Niky Kamran | |
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| Born | May 22, 1959 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Education | Université libre de Bruxelles (Lic) University of Waterloo (PhD) |
| Thesis | Contributions to the Study of the Separation of Variables and Symmetry Operators for Relativistic Wave Equations on Curved Spacetime |
| Doctoral advisor | Raymond McLenaghan and Robert Debever |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Geometric analysis Mathematical physics Differential geometry |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study McGill University |
Niky Kamran FRSC (born May 22,1959) is a Belgian and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis,differential geometry,and mathematical physics. [1] He is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. [2]
Kamran was born in Brussels,Belgium. He earned a licentiate in mathematics from the Universitélibre de Bruxelles in 1980. [2] He moved to Canada for graduate studies,earning a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Waterloo;his dissertation,titled Contributions to the Study of the Separation of Variables and Symmetry Operators for Relativistic Wave Equations on Curved Spacetime,was jointly supervised by Raymond G. McLenaghan and Robert Debever. [3]
In 1986 he became an assistant professor at Waterloo but then,after spending a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton,New Jersey,he moved to McGill in 1989. He was promoted to full professor in 1995,was awarded a James McGill Professorship in 2003 which he held until 2024,after which he was named Distinguished James McGill Professor as of 2024. [2]
Kamran won the Aisenstadt Prize in 1992. [4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [5] in 2002 and was awarded a Killam Fellowship from 2006 to 2008. [6] In 2012,he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [7] In 2014,Kamran was the winner of the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, [1] and in 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Science,Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. [8] That same academy had awarded him in 1988 the mathematics prize of its annual competition for a memoir on the equivalence problem of Élie Cartan and its applications. [9]
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