Sándor Kovács

Dr Kovács received his Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Utah under the direction of János Kollár. After being a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at M.I.T., and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2000. Dr. Kovács has held visiting positions at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto (Japan), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (California), the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (Hungary), the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (New Jersey), and the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Dr. Kovács's research is in higher dimensional algebraic geometry, he is especially interested in questions related to moduli theory, singularities and vanishing theorems for cohomology groups. He received the Rényi Kató Prize of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society (Hungary) and has been the recipient of an AMS Centennial Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Simons Fellowship.

Prof. Kovács was a member of the PIMS SRP between 2015 and 2019.