Background
Kollar, Janos was born on June 7, 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1981.
Kollar, Janos was born on June 7, 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1981.
Kollár began his studies at the Eötvös University in Budapest and later received his PhD at Brandeis University in 1984 under the direction of Teruhisa Matsusaka with a thesis on canonical threefolds.
Junior fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1987;
associate professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1987-1990;
professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1990-1994;
distinguished professor, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, since 1994.
Kollár is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and received the Cole Prize in 2006. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1995. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 1990 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyōto.
In 1996 he gave one of the plenary addresses at the European Mathematical Congress in Budapest (Low degree polynomial equations: arithmetic, geometry and topology). He was also selected as a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in 2014 in Seoul.
As a high school student, Kollár represented Hungary and won Gold medals at both the 1973 and 1974 International Mathematics Olympiads.
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[American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences. Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1995.
