Kiran Kedlaya
American mathematician (born 1974)
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Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (/ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/ KIRR-ən SHREE-dər ked-LAH-yə;[3] born July 1974) is an American mathematician. He currently is a Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics[4] at the University of California, San Diego.
Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
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| Born | June 1974 (age 52) United States[1] |
| Alma mater | MIT (Ph.D. 2000) Princeton (M.A. 1997) Harvard (B.A. 1996) |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2006)[2] Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | UCSD MIT |
| Aise Johan de Jong | |
Doctoral students | Jennifer Balakrishnan |
| Website | kskedlaya |
Biography
Kiran Kedlaya was born into a Tulu Brahmin family.[5] At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad,[6] which he later followed with a silver and another gold medal. While an undergraduate student at Harvard, Kedlaya was a three-time Putnam Fellow in 1993, 1994, and 1995.[7] A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".[8]
Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for a paper[9] in which he substantially improved on results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985)[10] on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n.
Kedlaya gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".[11] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[12]
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Selected works
- p-adic Differential Equations, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Band 125, Cambridge University Press 2010[14]
- with David Savitt, Dinesh Thakur, Matt Baker, Brian Conrad, Samit Dasgupta, Jeremy Teitelbaum p-adic Geometry, Lectures from the 2007 Arizona Winter School, American Mathematical Society 2008
- with Bjorn Poonen, Ravi Vakil The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000: Problems, Solutions and Commentary, Mathematical Association of America, 2002
