doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality field work_institutions residence prizes image article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
arthur ogus hamburg german mathematics massachusetts institute of technology , university of british columbia canada coxeter prize , 2011 crm-fields-pims prize , 2015 -- james prize , 2001 jeffery -- williams kai behrend.jpg kai behrend
 günter harder kai behrend university of california , berkeley , harvard university
kai behrend

kai behrend is a german mathematician .
he is a professor at the university of british columbia in vancouver .
his work is in algebraic geometry and he has made important contributions in the theory of algebraic stacks , gromov -- witten invariants and donaldson -- thomas theory .
perhaps , he is best known for behrend 's formula , the generalization of the grothendieck -- lefschetz trace formula to algebraic stacks .
he is the recipient of the 2001 coxeter -- james prize , the 2011 jeffery -- williams prize , and the 2015 crm-fields-pims prize .
