Chandrashekhar Khare

Chandrashekhar Khare
Born 1968
Nationality  India
Fields Mathematics
Institutions UCLA
Alma mater Caltech
Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor Haruzo Hida
Dinakar Ramakrishnan
Known for Proof of Serre conjecture
Notable awards INSA Young Scientist Award (1999)
Fermat Prize (2007)
Infosys Prize (2010)
Cole Prize (2011)

Chandrashekhar B. Khare (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture,[1] and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger.

Professional career

Resident of Mumbai, India and completed his undergraduate education at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He finished his thesis in 1995 under the supervision of Haruzo Hida at California Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis was published in the Duke Mathematical Journal. He proved Serre's conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, published in Inventiones Mathematicae.[2]

He started his career as a Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Currently, he is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

Khare is the winner of the INSA Young Scientist Award (1999), [3] Fermat Prize (2007), the Infosys Prize (2010),[4] and the Cole Prize (2011).

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".[5]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Khare, Chandrashekhar (2006), "Serre's modularity conjecture: The level one case", Duke Mathematical Journal 134 (3): 557–589, doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13434-8.
  2. ↑ Khare, Chandrashekhar; Wintenberger, Jean-Pierre (2009), "Serre’s modularity conjecture (I)", Inventiones Mathematicae 178 (3): 485–504, doi:10.1007/s00222-009-0205-7 and Khare, Chandrashekhar; Wintenberger, Jean-Pierre (2009), "Serre’s modularity conjecture (II)", Inventiones Mathematicae 178 (3): 505–586, doi:10.1007/s00222-009-0206-6.
  3. ↑ INSA Young Scientist Award
  4. ↑ Infosys Prize 2010 - Mathematical Sciences
  5. ↑ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.

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