Jacques Hurtubise (mathematician)

{{short description|Canadian mathematician}}

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.[http://www.math.mcgill.ca/hurtubise/ Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2015-03-01. Among other contributions, he is known for proving the Atiyah–Jones conjecture (in collaboration with Boyer, Mann, and Milgram).{{cite journal | last=Boyer | first=C. P. | last2=Hurtubise | first2=J. C. | last3=Mann | first3=B. M. | last4=Milgram | first4=R. J. | title=The Atiyah-Jones Conjecture | journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society | volume=26 | issue=2 | date=1 August 1992 | issn=0273-0979 | doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00286-0 | doi-access=free | pages=317–322 | url=https://www.ams.org/bull/1992-26-02/S0273-0979-1992-00286-0/S0273-0979-1992-00286-0.pdf | access-date=22 December 2024}}

After undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, Hurtubise became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for 1978–1981, and earned a DPhil from Oxford in 1982, supervised by Nigel Hitchin, with a dissertation concerning links between algebraic geometry and differential geometry.{{mathgenealogy|id=50919}} 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.[http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/science-performance/expert-panel/hurtubise.aspx Jacques Hurtubise], Council of Canadian Academies, retrieved 2015-03-01.

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,[http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/FRSC/ Lectures Celebrating New Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada], Fields Institute, 2004, retrieved 2015-03-01. and in 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2015-03-01.

In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.{{citation|url=https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2018/Fellows|title=Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows|publisher=Canadian Mathematical Society|date=December 7, 2018|access-date=January 7, 2020|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122125232/https://www2.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2018/Fellows|url-status=dead}}

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".{{citation|url=https://cms.math.ca/news-item/hurtubise-2022-david-borwein-award/|title=Dr. Jacques Hurtubise receives 2022 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award|publisher=Canadian Mathematical Society|date=August 3, 2022}}