University of Tehran (BSc) University of Nottingham (PhD)
Children
1
Awards
Leverhulme Prize (2010) Moore Prize (2016) Fields Medal (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Algebraic geometry
Birational geometry
Institutions
Tsinghua University University of Cambridge
Thesis
Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry(2004)
Doctoral advisor
Ivan Fesenko
Vyacheslav Shokurov[1]
Website
www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~cb496
Caucher BirkarFRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University[4] and at the University of Cambridge.[1][5]
Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry.[6] In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry,[7] and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type".[8] He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program".[9] In his office at the University, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist.[10]
^ abCaucher Birkar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^"جایزه معادل "نوبل ریاضی" به یک کرد ایرانی پناهنده به بریتانیا رسید". VoA (in Persian). 1 August 2018.
^"چرا مریم میرزاخانی و کوچر بیرکار مهاجرت کردند؟". BBC (in Persian). 3 August 2018.
^"清华大学举行菲尔兹奖获得者考切尔•比尔卡尔教授聘任仪式" (in Chinese (China)). 清华新闻网.
^Caucher Birkar publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^"Birkar Citation" (PDF). International Mathematical Union. Birkar long citation. 2018. p. 2.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^"Philip Leverhulme Prizes". Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
^"American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^Davis, Nicola; Zhou, Naaman (1 August 2018). "Former refugee among winners of Fields medal – the 'Nobel prize for maths'". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces." 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CaucherBirkar University of Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge, UK "For the proof...
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