Michael Harris (mathematician)

Michael Howard Harris (born 1954 in Philadelphia ) is an American mathematician who deals with number theory and modular forms in the context of the Langlands program.

Harris studied at Princeton University ( Bachelor's degree 1973) and received his doctorate in 1977 at Barry Mazur at Harvard University (On p- adic Representations Arising from Descent on Abelian Varieties, Compositio Mathematica published in Bd.39, 1979, p.177 -245, correction ibid., 2000). From 1977 he was at Brandeis University from 1989 to 1994 as a professor. After that, he was a professor at the University of Paris VII, Denis Diderot. From 2001 he is member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is at the Centre de Mathematiques Jussieu in Paris.

With Richard Taylor in 1998 he proved the local Langlands conjecture ( ie for local p- adic body ).

In 1982 he was Sloan Fellow. In 2006 he received the Grand Prix Sophie Germain of the French Academy of Sciences. 2002 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Beijing ( On the local Langlands correspondence ).

In 2007 he was awarded with Richard Taylor the Clay Research Award for their work on local and global Galois representations, partly in collaboration with Laurent Clozel and Nicholas Shepherd - Barron, culminating conjecture for elliptic curves with non-integral j- invariants in the proof of the Sato - Tate.

Writings

• Varieties with Richard Taylor The geometry and cohomology of some simple Shimura, Annals of Mathematics Studies 151, Princeton University Press, 2001 ( local Langlands correspondence)