Jacques Hurtubise

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Jacques-Claude Hurtubise (born March 12, 1957 in Montreal ) is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor at McGill University . He deals with algebraic geometry and differential geometry with applications in mathematical physics.

Hurtubise studied at the University of Montreal with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received his doctorate in 1982 from the University of Oxford with Nigel Hitchin ( Some problems linking algebraic and differential geometry ). He then went to the Université du Québec à Montréal and in 1987/88 at the Institute for Advanced Study . He has been Professor at McGill University and Head of the Mathematics Faculty since 1988.

From 1996 he was deputy director and then for four years until 2003 director of the Center de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM).

Hurtubise deals with different module spaces and their topology, module spaces on Riemann surfaces and the geometry of integrable systems. With Charles P. Boyer (* 1942), Benjamin Mann, and Jim Milgram , he proved the Atiyah-Jones conjecture about the topology of the module space of instantons on the sphere.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2004) and was awarded the Coxeter James Prize in 1993 . From 1978 to 1981 he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1994 he was a Centennial Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

There is also a Canadian painter of the same name (* 1939) and a cartoonist (* 1950).

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  1. ^ Biographical dates according to Canadian's Who's Who 1992
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Michael Atiyah , JDS Jones Topological aspects of Yang-Mills theory , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 61, 1978, pp. 97-118
  4. ^ Charles P. Boyer, JC Hurtubise, BM Mann, RJ Milgram The Atiyah-Jones conjecture , Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 26, 1992, pp. 317-321, the same Topology of Instanton Moduli Spaces I: The Atiyah-Jones conjecture , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 137, 1993, pp. 561-609
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SURNAME Hurtubise, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hurtubise, Jacques-Claude (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal