James McKernan
{{Short description|British mathematician (born 1964)}}
{{about|the mathematician|the educationist|James A. McKernan}}
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| name = James McKernan
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| caption = McKernan in 2006
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|03|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England, UK
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| nationality = British
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = MIT
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
| alma_mater = Harvard University
Trinity College, Cambridge
| doctoral_advisor = Joe Harris
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| awards = Cole Prize (2009)
Clay Research Award (2007)
Breakthrough Prize (2018)
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James McKernan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born 1964) is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 2007 until 2013.
Education
McKernan was educated at The Campion School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.'Cambridge University Tripos results', Times, 4 July 1985. His dissertation, On the Hyperplane Sections of a Variety in Projective Space, was supervised by Joe Harris.{{MathGenealogy |id=42404 }}
Recognition
McKernan was the joint winner of the Cole Prize in 2009,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/ams/press/cole-2009.html|title=Christopher Hacon and James McKernan Receive 2009 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra|publisher=American Mathematical Society|date=6 January 2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2009/February9/cole.html|title=Mathematics Professor Receives Cole Prize|publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara|date=9 February 2009|access-date=5 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190259/http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2009/February9/cole.html|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}} and joint recipient of the Clay Research Award in 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.claymath.org/research_award/McKernan/ |title=Clay Research Award, 2007 |publisher=Clay Mathematics Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613005225/http://claymath.org/research_award/McKernan/ |archive-date=13 June 2010 }} Both honors were received jointly with his colleague Christopher Hacon. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry".{{cite web|title=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897|url=http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php|publisher=International Congress of Mathematicians|access-date=15 August 2013|archive-date=8 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108012153/http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php|url-status=dead}} He was the joint winner (with Christopher Hacon) of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular his proof of the finite generation of the canonical ring, the existence of flips and the boundedness of varieties of log general type".{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=3 November 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jmckerna/}}
- [https://www.ams.org/notices/200904/rtx090400494p.pdf Citation for 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra]
- [http://www.claymath.org/library/research_award/corti.pdf The work of Hacon and McKernan]
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Category:20th-century British mathematicians
Category:21st-century British mathematicians
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Category:Clay Research Award recipients
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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