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