Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French-Canadian mathematician. He is a number theorist who works on Hilbert's 12th problem[1] and its relation with the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He is currently a professor of mathematics at McGill University.

Henri Darmon
Born (1965-10-22) 22 October 1965 (age 59)
Paris, France
NationalityCanadian
Alma materHarvard University
McGill University
AwardsCoxeter–James Prize (1998)
Ribenboim Prize (2002)
Cole Prize in Number Theory (2017)
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMcGill University
Doctoral advisorBenedict Gross
Doctoral studentsSamit Dasgupta

Career

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Darmon received his BSc from McGill University in 1987 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1991[1] under supervision of Benedict Gross.[2] From 1991 to 1996, he held positions in Princeton University.[3] Since 1994, he has been a professor at McGill University.[3]

Awards

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Darmon was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.[1] In 2008, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's John L. Synge Award.[4] He received the 2017 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory "for his contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves and modular forms",[5] and the 2017 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize,[6] which is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.[7]

Personal life

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Darmon is married to Galia Dafni, also a mathematician at Concordia University.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Professor Darmon's profile at science.ca
  2. ^ Henri Darmon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "Henri DARMON's Curriculum Vitae".
  4. ^ "John L. Synge Award". Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13.
  5. ^ 2017 Cole Prize in Number Theory
  6. ^ ":: 2017 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Recipient ::".
  7. ^ "2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  8. ^ "Henri Darmon, Pure and Applied Mathematics: One of the world's leading number theorists, working on Hilbert's 12th problem". Science.ca. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
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