Sebastián Hurtado-Salazar is a Colombian mathematician working in dynamical systems, geometry and topology. He is a professor at Yale University. In 2017, together with and , he proved Zimmer's conjecture.
Education Hurtado-Salazar completed his mathematical undergraduate education at the National University of Colombia and obtained a master degree in mathematics at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada. (in Spanish) He obtained his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 2014 with Ian Agol as advisor (thesis: Homomorphisms between groups of diffeomorphisms).
Honors He was a Sloan Fellow. He shared the 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize with Aaron Brown. (in Portuguese) In 2023, he shared the Frontiers of Science Award with David Fisher and Aaron Brown.
Selected publications A. Brown, D. Fisher, S. Hurtado (2020). "Zimmer's conjecture for actions of ", Inventiones Mathematicae 221 (3), pp. 1001-1060. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02735 (announced in 2017) A. Brown, D. Fisher, S. Hurtado (2022). "Zimmer's conjecture: Subexponential growth, measure rigidity, and strong property (T)". Annals of Mathematics, 196 (3), pp. 891-940. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2022.196.3.1
Further reading Séminaire Bourbaki Octobre 2017: Serge Cantat - Progrès récents concernant le programme de Zimmer (d'après A. Brown, D. Fisher, et S. Hurtado) (in French)
References
External links YouTube: Institute for Advanced Study, "On Zimmer's conjecture - Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar" (2017) Interview with Aaron Brown and Sebastián Hurtado-Salazar