Greg Hjorth (14 June 1963 – 13 January 2011) was an Australian Professor of Mathematics,[1] chess International Master (1984) and joint (with Ian Rogers) Commonwealth Champion in 1983.
[5] He won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra in 1982, 1985 and 1987, and played for Australia in the Chess Olympiads of 1982, 1984 and 1986.
Hjorth earned his PhD in 1993, under the direction of W. Hugh Woodin, with a dissertation entitled On the influence of second uniform indiscernible.
University Of Melbourne has Greg Hjorth Memorial Prize (biennial scholarship is awarded to the most outstanding postgraduate thesis in mathematics, with preference given to areas of logic, set theory, measure theory or related topics passed by examiners within the previous two calendar years) named after him.
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