Jacques Hurtubise (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Jacques Hurtubise (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.
- Among other contributions, he is known for proving the Atiyah–Jones conjecture.After undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, Hurtubise became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for 1978–1981, and earned a Ph.D.
- from Oxford in 1982, supervised by Nigel Hitchin, with a dissertation concerning links between algebraic geometry and differential geometry.
- Following his Ph.D., 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.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, and in 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
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