Caucher Birkar

Caucher Birkar (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار) is a Kurdish mathematician who is currently engaged in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry.^[1]

Early years and education

Caucher Birkar was born to Kurdish parents in 1978 in Marivan, Iran. He spent his earliest years in Marivan, where he also studied. He moved to Tehran to study mathematics at the University of Tehran, where he received his bachelor's degree. Birkar received his PhD degree at the University of Nottingham, after moving to the United Kingdom.

Research

His main area of interest is algebraic geometry, in particular, birational geometry. Birkar settled the existence of log flips in higher dimensions,^[2] continuing Vyacheslav Shokurov's work. He has, along with several other mathematicians, proved that the canonical ring of a smooth projective variety is finitely generated.^[3] Birkar has also proved that every variety of general type over a field of characteristic zero has a minimal model.^[4]

Awards

• Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for "his outstanding contributions to fundamental research in algebraic geometry"^[5][6]
• Prize of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris^[7]

External links

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• , some of his papers
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project Birkar on the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Birkar on Journalogy

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