Nigel James Hitchin - Curriculum vitae#

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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