Michael Hutchings (mathematician)
Michael Lounsbery Hutchings is a mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He is known for proving the double bubble conjecture on the shape of two-chambered soap bubbles,[2] and for his work on circle-valued Morse theory and on embedded contact homology.
As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Hutchings did an REU project with Frank Morgan at Williams College that began his interest in the mathematics of soap bubbles.[3] He finished his undergraduate studies in 1993, and stayed at Harvard for graduate school, earning his Ph.D. in 1998 under the supervision of Clifford Taubes.[4] After postdoctoral and visiting positions at Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2002.
He won a Sloan Fellowship in 2003.[5] He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, entitled "Embedded contact homology and its applications". In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
References
- ↑ Faculty profile, UC Berkeley, retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ "Blowing out the bubble reputation: Four mathematicians have just cleaned up a long-standing conundrum set by soapy water, writes Keith Devlin", The Guardian, 22 March 2000.
- ↑ Personal bio, Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley, retrieved 2012-01-21.
- ↑ Michael Lounsbery Hutchings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Mathematics People" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society 50 (6), June–July 2003: 697
|contribution=ignored (help). - ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.