Key facts
- Born
- Fereydoun Derakhshani , 1978 (age 47 – 48), Marivan County , Iran
- Citizenship
- Iran , Britain
- Alma mater
- University of Tehran (BSc), University of Nottingham (PhD)
- Awards
- Leverhulme Prize (2010), Moore Prize (2016), Fields Medal (2018)
- Fields
- Algebraic geometry Birational geometry
- Institutions
- Tsinghua University , University of Cambridge
- Thesis
- Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ivan Fesenko Vyacheslav Shokurov
- Website
- ymsc .tsinghua .edu .cn /en /info /1031 /1892 .htm
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Marivan
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- University of Nottingham
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Whitehead Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- Vyacheslav Shokurov
- Field of work
- birational geometry
- Official website
- www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~cb496
- Image
- Birkar.jpg
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- name in native language
- کۆچەر بیرکار
- Commons category
- Caucher Birkar
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of birth
- 1978-07-00
- birth name
- Fereydoun Derakhshani
- member of
- Academia Europaea
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Encyclopedic overview
Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Kurdish: فەرەیدوون درەخشانی، Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". In his office at the university, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caucher Birkar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.