Sebastián Hurtado-Salazar
Colombian mathematician
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Sebastián Hurtado-Salazar is a Colombian mathematician working in dynamical systems, geometry and topology. He is a professor at Yale University.[1] In 2017, together with Aaron Brown and David Fisher, he proved Zimmer's conjecture.[2]
IMPA (M.S.)
National University of Colombia (B.S.)
Sebastián Hurtado-Salazar | |
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2014 in Oberwolfach | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) IMPA (M.S.) National University of Colombia (B.S.) |
| Known for | Zimmer's conjecture |
| Awards | New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Dynamical systems Geometry Topology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | Homomorphisms between groups of diffeomorphisms (2014) |
| Ian Agol | |
| Website | sites |
Education
Hurtado-Salazar completed his mathematical undergraduate education at the National University of Colombia and obtained a master degree in mathematics at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada.[3] He obtained his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 2014 with Ian Agol as advisor (thesis: Homomorphisms between groups of diffeomorphisms).[4]
Honors
He was a Sloan Fellow.[5] He shared the 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize with Aaron Brown.[6][7][8] In 2023, he shared the Frontiers of Science Award with David Fisher and Aaron Brown.[9]
Selected publications
- A. Brown, D. Fisher, S. Hurtado (2020). "Zimmer's conjecture for actions of ", Inventiones Mathematicae 221 (3), pp. 1001-1060. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02735 (announced in 2017)
- A. Brown, D. Fisher, S. Hurtado (2022). "Zimmer's conjecture: Subexponential growth, measure rigidity, and strong property (T)". Annals of Mathematics, 196 (3), pp. 891-940. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2022.196.3.1
