Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French-Canadian mathematician. He is a number theorist who works on Hilbert's 12th problem and its relation with the

Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture In mathematics, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (often called the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) describes the set of rational solutions to equations defining an elliptic curve. It is an open problem in the field of number theory a ...

. He is currently a James McGill Professor of Mathematics at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...

Career

Darmon received his BSc from

in 1987 and his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1991Professor Darmon's profile at science.ca
/ref> under supervision of Benedict Gross. From 1991 to 1996, he held positions in

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

. Since 1994, he has been a professor at McGill University.

Awards

Darmon was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's John L. Synge Award. He received the 2017 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory "for his contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves and modular forms", and the 2017

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is the premier Canadian research prize in the mathematical sciences. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences and is given annually by three Canadian mathematics instit ...

, which is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences.

References

External links

Professor Darmon's webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Darmon, Henri 1965 births Living people Number theorists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canadian mathematicians Harvard University alumni McGill University alumni McGill University faculty Princeton University faculty