Kiran Kedlaya

Kiran Kedlaya
Kiran Kedlaya
Born	June 1974 (age 50); United States
Alma mater	MIT (Ph.D. 2000); Princeton (M.A. 1997); Harvard (B.A. 1996)
Awards	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2006); Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	UCSD; MIT
Doctoral advisor	Aise Johan de Jong
Doctoral students	Jennifer Balakrishnan
Website	kskedlaya.org

Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (/ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/ KIRR-ən SHREE-dər ked-LAH-yə;^[3] born July 1974) is an 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] which he later followed with 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

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

Selected works

p-adic Differential Equations, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Band 125, Cambridge University Press 2010^[14]
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

References

^ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Kiran Kedlaya". NSF.
^ Kedlaya, Kiran. "About my name".
^ "About My Name".
^ "Exploring the mathematical universe". American Institute of Mathematics. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
^ "Kiran S. Kedlaya".
^ "Silver Spring whiz kid brings home the gold". Washington Times. July 20, 1990.
^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
^ Hsu, Geoffrey C. (June 6, 1996). "Breaking the Curve". The Harvard Crimson.
^ ——— (1997). "Large Product-Free Subsets of Finite Groups". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A. 77 (2): 339–343. doi:10.1006/jcta.1997.2715.
^ 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.
^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
^ Jeopardy! Archive – Show #6257, aired 2011–11–29
^ 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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[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.

[MMA-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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