Lars Hesselholt (born September 25, 1966) is a

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mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Nagoya University in Japan, as well as holding a temporary position as Niels Bohr Professor at the

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.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-02-18.Hesselholt receives Niels Bohr professorship
Univ. of Copenhagen, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, July 12, 2012, retrieved 2015-02-18. His research interests include homotopy theory,

algebraic K-theory Algebraic ''K''-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called ''K''-groups. These are groups in the sense ...

, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. Hesselholt was born in Vejrumbro, a village in the

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of Denmark. He studied at Aarhus University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1988, a master's degree in 1992, and a Ph.D. in 1994; his dissertation, supervised by

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retrieved 3 February 2013. is a Dan ...

, concerned

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. After postdoctoral studies at the

Mittag-Leffler Institute The Mittag-Leffler Institute is a mathematical research institute located in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm. It invites scholars to participate in half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects. The Institute is run by the Royal Swe ...

, he joined the faculty of the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1994 as a C.L.E. Moore instructor, and stayed at MIT as an assistant and then associate professor, before moving to Nagoya in 2008. Hesselholt's wife is Japanese, and when he joined the Nagoya faculty he became the first westerner with a full professorship in mathematics in Japan. He is the managing editor of the ''Nagoya Mathematical Journal''. Hesselholt became a

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in 1998, and was an

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in 2002. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the

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, and a foreign member of the

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.Member profile
, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-02-18.
Univ. of Nagoya, Graduate School of Mathematics, retrieved 2015-02-18.

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hesselholt, Lars 1966 births Living people Japanese mathematicians Danish expatriates in Japan 20th-century Danish mathematicians 21st-century Danish mathematicians Aarhus University alumni Nagoya University faculty Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty