Michael Liam McQuillan is a Scottish

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

studying algebraic geometry. As of 2019 he is Professor at the

University of Rome Tor Vergata Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combine ...

Career

Michael McQuillan received the doctorate in 1992 at

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under

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("Division points on semi-Abelian varieties"). In 1996, MacQuillan gave a new proof of a conjecture of

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(1926) about holomorphic curves in closed subvarieties of Abelian varieties, proved a conjecture of

Shoshichi Kobayashi was a Japanese mathematician. He was the eldest brother of electrical engineer and computer scientist Hisashi Kobayashi. His research interests were in Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie al ...

(about the Kobayashi-hyperbolicity of generic hypersurfaces of high degree in projective ''n''-dimensional space) in the three-dimensional case and achieved partial results on a conjecture of Mark Green and

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(which states that a holomorphic curve on an algebraic surface of general type with

c_^2 > c_2

cannot be Zariski-dense). From 1996 to 2001 he was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at

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of the

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and in 2009 was Professor at the

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as well as Advanced Research Fellow of the British

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. As of 2019 he is Professor at the

and an editor of the European Journal of Mathematics.

Awards

In 2000 McQuillan received the

EMS Prize The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...

, which was announced from the European Congress of Mathematics in July 2000, for his work: In 2001 he was awarded the

Whitehead Prize The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehea ...

of the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

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(''Integrating

\partial \bar

''). In 2001 he received the Whittaker Prize.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mcquillan, Michael 20th-century Scottish mathematicians 21st-century Scottish mathematicians Whitehead Prize winners Living people Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata Harvard University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Algebraic geometers Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize winners