Shigefumi MORI

Address:

Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS)
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-01
Japan

Phone: (81) 75 753 7227
Fax: 75 753 7272
E-Mail: mori@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Born:

February 23, 1951, Nagoya, Japan

Education:

1973 B.A., Kyoto University, Japan
1975 M.A., Kyoto University, Japan
1978 Dr. Sci., Kyoto University, Japan

Positions:

1975 Assistant, Kyoto University, Japan
1977 - 1980 Assistant Professor, Harvard University
1980 Lecturer, Nagoya University, Japan
1981 - 1982 Visiting Member, I.A.S. Princeton
1982 Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
1985 - 1987 Visiting Professor, Columbia University
1988 Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
1990 - Professor, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan
1991 - 1992 Visiting Professor, University of Utah

Selected Awards, Honours and Distinctions:

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)

Research Interests:

Algebraic Geometry,
especially birational classification and the birational geometry of algebraic varieties

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