Dennis Gaitsgory is a mathematician

Mathematician

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 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 known for his research on the geometric Langlands program

Langlands program

The Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures that relate Galois groups in algebraic number theory to automorphic forms and representation theory of algebraic groups over local fields and adeles. It was proposed by ....

. Born in what is now Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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 under Joseph Bernstein

Joseph Bernstein

Joseph Bernstein is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory....

. He received his doctorate

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 in 1997 for a thesis entitled "Automorphic Sheaves and Eisenstein Series". He has been awarded a Harvard Junior Fellowship

Harvard Society of Fellows

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, a Clay Research Fellowship

Clay Mathematics Institute

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, and the prize of the European Mathematical Society

European Mathematical Society

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 for his work.

His work in geometric Langlands culminated in a joint 2002 paper with Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel is a mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...

 and Kari Vilonen, On the geometric Langlands conjecture establishing the conjecture for finite fields, and a separate 2004 paper, On a vanishing conjecture appearing in the geometric Langlands correspondence, generalizing the proof to include the field of complex numbers as well.

Prior to his 2005 appointment at Harvard he was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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from 2001–2005.

External links

• Gaitsgory's thesis
• at the CMI website, with a photo