!!Nigel James Hitchin - Curriculum vitae
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[CV|NHitchin-FullCV-2012.pdf]
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__EDUCATION__
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*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)
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__ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT__
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*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
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__VISITING POSITIONS__
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''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\\ \\
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__AWARDS__
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*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
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__LEARNED SOCIETIES__
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*Academia Europea
*American Mathematical Society
*European Mathematical Society
*London Mathematical Society
*Royal Society
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__EDITORIAL BOARDS__
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*Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
*Mathematische Annalen
*Journal of Differential Geometry
*Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
*Mathematical Research Letters
*Topology
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__BOOK SERIES__
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*LMS Lecture Notes (Editor)
*Springer: Grundlehren
*Birkh¨auser:Monographs
*OUP Mathematical Monographs
*Imperial College Press
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__MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES__
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*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
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__NAMED LECTURES__
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*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
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__RESEARCH INTERESTS__
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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