Nigel James Hitchin - Curriculum vitae#


CV(info)

EDUCATION
  • 1957-64 Ecclesbourne School, Duffield, Derbyshire
  • 1965-69 Jesus College, Oxford
  • BA Mathematics, First Class Honours (1968)
  • 1969-71 Wolfson College, Oxford
  • Diploma in Advanced Mathematics (1969)
  • D.Phil (1972)

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
  • 1971-73 Research Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 1973-74 Courant Institute Instructor, New York University
  • 1974-77 SRC Research Assistant, Oxford University
  • Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College
  • 1977-79 SRC Advanced Research Fellow, Oxford University
  • Research Fellow, Wolfson College
  • 1979–-90 Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics & CUF Lecturer
  • St Catherines College, Oxford
  • 1990–-94 Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick
  • 1994-–97 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University
  • Professorial Fellow, Gonville and Caius College
  • 1997– Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford University
  • Professorial Fellow, New College

VISITING POSITIONS

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
1975/79/87/90/94/97

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
1979

SFB 40, University of Bonn
1979

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1982

State University of New York, Stony Brook
1983–-84

Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
1988

Catedra BBV, Universidad Aut ´onoma, Madrid
2001


AWARDS
  • 1968 Oxford University Junior Mathematical Prize
  • 1981 London Mathematical Society Junior Whitehead Prize
  • 1990 London Mathematical Society Senior Berwick Prize
  • 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1998 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
  • 2000 Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society
  • 2002 London Mathematical Society Polya Prize
  • 2003 Honorary DSc University of Bath

LEARNED SOCIETIES
  • Academia Europea
  • American Mathematical Society
  • European Mathematical Society
  • London Mathematical Society
  • Royal Society

EDITORIAL BOARDS
  • Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
  • Mathematische Annalen
  • Journal of Differential Geometry
  • Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • Mathematical Research Letters
  • Topology

BOOK SERIES
  • LMS Lecture Notes (Editor)
  • Springer: Grundlehren
  • Birkh¨auser:Monographs
  • OUP Mathematical Monographs
  • Imperial College Press

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES
  • 1994-96 President, London Mathematical Society
  • 1999-2001 Chairman, RAE Assessment Panel, Pure Mathematics
  • 1999-2001 Chairman, Scientiffic Steering Committee, Isaac Newton Institute
  • 2000 Member, Scientiffic Committee, Max Planck Institute, Bonn
  • 2000 Member Advisory Panel, Centre de Recherche Math´ematiques, Montr´eal
  • 2002 Royal Society Council Member

NAMED LECTURES
  • 1983 Schlumberger Lectures, Rice University
  • 1989 Phillips Lectures, Haverford College
  • 1992 Clifford Lectures, Tulane University
  • 1993 Marston Morse Memorial Lectures, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 1995 Coble Lectures, University of Illinois, Urbana
  • 1995 Namboodiri Lectures, University of Chicago
  • 1998 D'Atri Lectures, Rutgers University
  • 1999 A T Brauer Lectures, University of North Carolina
  • 2000 Bergman Lectures, Stanford University
  • 2001 Simons Lectures, Stony Brook
  • 2002 Andrejewski Lectures, G¨ottingen
  • 2003 Ritt Lectures, Columbia University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Differential and algebraic geometry and its relationship with the equations of mathematical physics.Current projects include the areas of
  • Hyperkähler geometry
  • Special Lagrangian geometry and mirror symmetry
  • Geometric solutions of Painlev´e equations
  • Magnetic monopoles
  • Vector bundles on algebraic curves
  • The theory of gerbes
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