Chandrashekhar Khare | |
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Born | 1968 |
Nationality | India |
Alma mater | Caltech Cambridge University |
Known for | Proof of Serre conjecture |
Awards | INSA Young Scientist Award (1999) Fermat Prize (2007) Infosys Prize (2010) Cole Prize (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | UCLA |
Doctoral advisor | Haruzo Hida Dinakar Ramakrishnan |
Chandrashekhar B. Khare, FRS (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. He has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2015, serving as Jury Chair from 2020.[2]