Shigefumi Mori

MORI, SHIGEFUMI

E-mail : mori@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Professor of Algebraic Geometry at the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Research Interests :
Algebraic Geometry, especially birational classification and the birational geometry of algebraic varieties.

Mori has worked on algebraic manifolds with ample tangent bundles and was the first to prove the Hartshorne conjecture in 1978. This conjecture, posed in 1970, claimed that projective spaces are the only smooth complete algebraic varieties with ample tangent bundles.

Selected Awards :
1983 Japan Mathematical Society Iyanaga Prize
1984 Chunichi Culture Prize
1988 Japan Mathematical Society Autumn Prize (with Y. Kawamata)
1989 Inoue Science Prize
1990 American Mathematical Society Cole Prize
1990 Japan Academy Prize (with S. Iitaka and Y. Kawamata)
1990 Fields Medal
1990 Japanese Government Prize (Person of Cultural Merits)

Selected Publications :
1. Projective manifolds with ample tangent bundles, Ann. Math. 110 (1979) 593-606
2. Threefolds whose canonical bundles are not numerically effective, Ann. Math. 116 (1982) 133 - 176
3. Flip theorem and the existence of minimal models for 3-folds, Journal of the AMS 1 (1988) 117 - 253
4. Rationally connected varieties (with J.Kollar and Y. Miyaoka), Journal of Alg. Geom. 1 (1992) 429 - 448
5. Classification of three dimensional flips (with J. Kollar), Journal of the AMS 5 (1992) 533 - 703