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in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular his proof of the finite generation of the canonical ring, the existence of flips and the boundedness of varieties of log general type".
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in 2010, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry". He was the joint winner (with
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This article is about the mathematician. For the educationist, see
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in 2007. Both honors were received jointly with his colleague
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invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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On the Hyperplane Sections of a Variety in Projective Space
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James A. McKernan

Harvard University
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cole Prize
Clay Research Award
Breakthrough Prize
MIT
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisor
Joe Harris
FRS
University of California, San Diego
MIT
The Campion School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Harvard University
Joe Harris
Cole Prize
Clay Research Award
Christopher Hacon
invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians
Christopher Hacon
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
American Mathematical Society
James McKernan
Mathematics Genealogy Project
"Christopher Hacon and James McKernan Receive 2009 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra"
American Mathematical Society

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