Chandrashekhar Khare

Chandrashekhar Khare
Born	1968
Nationality	India
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	UCLA
Alma mater	Caltech Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	Haruzo Hida Dinakar Ramakrishnan
Known for	Proof of Serre conjecture
Notable awards	INSA Young Scientist Award (1999) Fermat Prize (2007) Infosys Prize (2010) Cole Prize (2011)

Chandrashekhar B. Khare (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture,^[1] and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger.

Professional career

Resident of Mumbai, India and completed his undergraduate education at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He finished his thesis in 1995 under the supervision of Haruzo Hida at California Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis was published in the Duke Mathematical Journal. He proved Serre's conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, published in Inventiones Mathematicae.^[2]

He started his career as a Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Currently, he is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

Khare is the winner of the INSA Young Scientist Award (1999), ^[3] Fermat Prize (2007), the Infosys Prize (2010),^[4] and the Cole Prize (2011).

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".^[5]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society^[6] and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[7]

References

External links

• Going beyond Fermat's last theorem
• Chandrashekhar Khare's homepage
• Another proof for Fermat's last theorem
• Chandrashekhar Khare at the Mathematics Genealogy Project