Kiran Kedlaya
Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (/ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/
KIRR-ən SHREE-dər ked-LAH-yə;[3] born July 1974) is Kiran Kedlaya
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
Born June 1974 (age 50)
Kiran Kedlaya was born into a Tulu Brahmin family.[5]
United States[2]
At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the
International Mathematics Olympiad,[6] which he later Alma mater MIT (Ph.D. 2000)
followed with a silver and another gold medal. While Princeton (M.A. 1997)
an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three- Harvard (B.A. 1996)
time Putnam Fellow in 1993, 1994, and 1995.[7] A Awards Presidential Early Career
1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as Award for Scientists and
"the best college-age student in math in the United Engineers (2006)[1]
States".[8] Fellow, American Mathematical
Society (2012)
Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for Scientific career
a paper[9] in which he substantially improved on
Fields Mathematics
results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985)[10] on the
size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group Institutions UCSD
of order n. MIT
Doctoral Aise Johan de Jong
He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of advisor
Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number
Doctoral Jennifer Balakrishnan
Theory".[11]
students
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Website kskedlaya.org (https://kskedlay
Mathematical Society.[12] a.org/)
Game shows
Kedlaya was a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.[13]
Selected works
p-adic Differential Equations (https://books.google.com/books/about/p_adic_Differential_Eq
uations.html?id=Enrw2kCqZOsC), 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 (https://books.google.com/books/about/P_adic_Geometry.htm
l?id=SGAQvu0-Vm0C), 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
1. "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Kiran
Kedlaya" (https://www.nsf.gov/awards/PECASE/recip_details.jsp?pecase_id=209). NSF.
2. Kedlaya, Kiran. "About my name" (http://kskedlaya.org/about-my-name/).
3. "About My Name" (http://www.mit.edu/~kedlaya/about-my-name.html).
4. "Exploring the mathematical universe" (http://aimath.org/aimnews/lmfdb/). American Institute
of Mathematics. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
5. "Kiran S. Kedlaya" (https://kskedlaya.org/about-my-name/).
6. "Silver Spring whiz kid brings home the gold". Washington Times. July 20, 1990.
7. "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners" (http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-aw
ards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners). Mathematical Association of
America. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
8. Hsu, Geoffrey C. (June 6, 1996). "Breaking the Curve" (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1
996/6/6/breaking-the-curve-pbibm-statistically-significant/). The Harvard Crimson.
9. ——— (1997). "Large Product-Free Subsets of Finite Groups" (https://doi.org/10.1006%2Fjc
ta.1997.2715). Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A. 77 (2): 339–343.
doi:10.1006/jcta.1997.2715 (https://doi.org/10.1006%2Fjcta.1997.2715).
10. Babai, László; Sós, Vera T. (1985). "Sidon sets in groups and induced subgraphs of Cayley
graphs" (http://real.mtak.hu/110564/1/1-s2.0-S0195669885800019-main.pdf) (PDF).
European Journal of Combinatorics. 6 (2): 101–114. doi:10.1016/s0195-6698(85)80001-9 (h
ttps://doi.org/10.1016%2Fs0195-6698%2885%2980001-9).
11. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897" (https://web.archive.org/web/201711080121
53/http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php). International
Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original (http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/
Speakers/SortedByCongress.php) on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
12. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (https://www.ams.org/profession/fellow
s-list), retrieved 2013-01-27.
13. Jeopardy! Archive – Show #6257, aired 2011–11–29 (http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.p
hp?game_id=3770)
14. Berger, Laurent (2012). "Review: p-adic differential equations, by Kiran Kedlaya" (https://ww
w.ams.org/journals/bull/2012-49-03/S0273-0979-2012-01371-X/S0273-0979-2012-01371-X.
pdf) (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 49 (3): 465–468. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2012-
01371-X (https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0273-0979-2012-01371-X).
External links
Kiran Kedlaya's website (http://www.kskedlaya.org/)
Kiran Kedlaya (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=47174) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Kiran Kedlaya's results (https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=2405) at
International Mathematical Olympiad
Kiran Kedlaya (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2260444/) at IMDb
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