Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Room 2-165
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
phone: 1-617-253-2946
fax: 1-617-253-4358
email: kedlaya[at]mit[dot]edu (public key)

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• Seminars at MIT: Harvard/MIT algebraic geometry seminar, number theory (also the BC-MIT number theory seminar), colloquium, STAGE
• UROP: FAQ and current listings

News (see also past news)

I will be away from MIT during much of the 2011-12 academic year. See my itinerary for details. (25 Oct 11)

Fast facts (see also my CV)

Teaching: none during 2011-12. See my past courses.

Research areas: number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry. Specialties: p-adic analytic methods in arithmetic geometry, p-adic Hodge theory, algorithms in arithmetic geometry, applications in computer science (notably cryptography).

Editorial activity: International Math. Research Notices.

Directorial activity: USA Mathematical Olympiad committee, Art of Problem Solving Foundation board of directors, Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions advisory board (AMS representative).

Current grants: DARPA grant HR0011-09-1-0048, NSF CAREER grant DMS-0545904, MIT Research Support Committee grant (NEC Fund).

Awards: 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Software: On my computer dwork.mit.edu, I maintain Magma (command magma) and Sage (command sage). (Math department users can also access Magma on archimedes, hypatia, and newton.)

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