Kiran Kedlaya

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.

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

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. Kedlaya, Kiran. "About my name".
  2. "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Kiran Kedlaya". NSF.
  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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