Professor Joaquin Moraga has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. He will be receiving $500,000 over the course of five years to supplement his research regarding algebraic geometry.
This program offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Moraga’s project aims to develop new tools to understand algebraic singularities and apply these techniques to understand algebraic varieties of positive curvature. The funds will be used to further several algebraic geometry activities at UCLA and support graduate and undergraduate students in the field.
As part of this project, two summer research schools in birational geometry will be hosted at UCLA.
Moraga, together with other experts in the field, will train the new generation of mathematicians in birational geometry.
Read this official announcement here.
Learn more about the NSF CAREER program here.
