Kevin Buzzard

Kevin Mark Buzzard ( born September 21, 1968) is a British mathematician who deals with number theory and modular forms.

Buzzard studied at Cambridge University (Bachelor, 1990, Master 1994), where he received his doctorate in 1995 with Richard Taylor (The levels of modular representations ). As a post-doc in 1995 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and in 1996/97 at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1998 he was a lecturer from 2002 Reader and from 2004 professor at Imperial College in London. It was in 2002 at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris and visiting professor at Harvard.

In a eulogy to the Whitehead price his work for a complete description of the possible levels of modular mod l Galois representations and his works are highlighted to p- adic modular forms. Among other things, he simplified the theory by Robert F. Coleman and Barry Mazur on p- adic modular forms families and gave a criterion from the Galois theory of when a p- adic modular form can be continued analytically to a classical modular form.

In 1993 he received the Smith Prize of the University of Cambridge. In 2002 he was awarded the Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 2008 and the Senior Berwick Prize.

Writings

• Editor with J. Nekovář, David Burns: L- Functions and Galois Representations, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, 2007