Kiran Kedlaya
BornJune 1974 (age 49)
United States[2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT (Ph.D. 2000)
Princeton (M.A. 1997)
Harvard (B.A. 1996)
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2006)[1]
Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUCSD
MIT
Doctoral advisorAise Johan de Jong
Doctoral studentsJennifer Balakrishnan
Websitekskedlaya.org

Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (/ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/;[3] born July 1974) is an Indian 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.

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] and would later win a silver and another gold medal. While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he 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.

He 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]

Game shows

He was also a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.[13]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Kiran Kedlaya". NSF.
  2. ^ Kedlaya, Kiran. "About my name".
  3. ^ "About My Name".
  4. ^ "Exploring the mathematical universe". American Institute of Mathematics. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Kiran S. Kedlaya".
  6. ^ "Silver Spring whiz kid brings home the gold". Washington Times. July 20, 1990.
  7. ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
  8. ^ Hsu, Geoffrey C. (June 6, 1996). "Breaking the Curve". The Harvard Crimson.
  9. ^ ——— (1997). "Large Product-Free Subsets of Finite Groups". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A. 77 (2): 339–343. doi:10.1006/jcta.1997.2715.
  10. ^ Babai, László; Sós, Vera T. (1985). "Sidon sets in groups and induced subgraphs of Cayley graphs" (PDF). European Journal of Combinatorics. 6 (2): 101–114. doi:10.1016/s0195-6698(85)80001-9.
  11. ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  12. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
  13. ^ Jeopardy! Archive – Show #6257, aired 2011–11–29
  14. ^ Berger, Laurent (2012). "Review: p-adic differential equations, by Kiran Kedlaya" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 49 (3): 465–468. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2012-01371-X.

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