Prof. Dr. Chandrashekhar B. Khare

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAlgebra, Theory of Numbers, Algebraic Geometry
KeywordsAlgebraic Number Theory, Modular forms, Galois representations, Class Field Theory, Langlands Program

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityLos Angeles
InstitutionUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
InstituteDepartment of Mathematics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gebhard BöckleInterdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2014

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Chandrashekhar Khare is an internationally renowned researcher in number theory. His research has led to many foundational results on Galois representations and their link to automorphic forms. His most spectacular result has been his joint proof with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger of the modularity conjecture by Serre. This is a structural result which has deep impact on many number theoretic questions. During his stay in Germany, he intends to investigate aspects of higher dimensional analogs of the Serre conjecture, its implication to the Langlands program and possible applications to p-adic Galois representations.