Kiran Kedlaya

Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (* July 1974 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American mathematician who deals with number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Kedlaya has Indian ancestors. He was a finalist in the 1992 Westinghouse talent competition, won the 1990 and 1992 gold medal and 1991 silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 1994 he attended the Budapest Semester in Mathematics. 1993 to 1995 he was a Putnam Fellow in successes in the Putnam Competition. In 1996, he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at Harvard University in 1997 and his master's degree in mathematics at Princeton University. In 1997 he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2000 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Aise Johan de Jong PhD ( Descent theorems for overconvergent F- crystals ). As a post - graduate student he was at MSRI and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003 he was Assistant Professor at MIT and in 2007 Associate Professor. In 2009 he became Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

He is particularly concerned with p- adic analytic methods in arithmetic geometry and p- adic Hodge theory, algorithms in the arithmetic geometry and applications in cryptography.

2006 to 2008 he was Sloan Fellow. In 2006 he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2010 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad ( Relative p- adic Hodge Theory and Rapoport -Zink period domains). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • P- adic Differential Equations, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol 125, Cambridge University Press 2010
  • 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
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