Michael Howard Harris (born 1954) is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at
Columbia University
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who specializes in number theory and representation theory. He made notable contributions to the
Langlands program
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, for which he (alongside
Richard Taylor) won the 2007
Clay Research Award __NOTOC__
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. In particular, he (jointly with Taylor) proved the
local Langlands conjecture for
GL(''n'') over a ''p''-adic
local field
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, and he was part of the team that proved the
Sato–Tate conjecture
In mathematics, the Sato–Tate conjecture is a statistical statement about the family of elliptic curves ''Ep'' obtained from an elliptic curve ''E'' over the rational numbers by reduction modulo almost all prime numbers ''p''. Mikio Sato and J ...
. He was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
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in 2022.
Education and career
Harris attained his doctorate from
Harvard University
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in 1977, under supervision of
Barry Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem ...
. His thesis, entitled "On ''p''-Adic Representations Arising from Descent on Abelian Varieties", was later published in ''
Compositio Mathematica
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''. Before arriving at Columbia University he held permanent positions at
Brandeis University
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and
Université Paris-Diderot; he has also held extended visiting positions at
Bethlehem University, the
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
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, and the
Institut des Hautes-Études Scientifiques.
Works
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Recognition
He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the
American Mathematical Society
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"for contributions to arithmetic geometry, particularly the theory of automorphic forms, L-functions and motives".
He was elected to the
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
in 2016 and to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 2019.
Notes
References
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External links
Michael Harris's web page*
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1954 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Number theorists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Clay Research Award recipients
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Columbia University faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
People from Philadelphia
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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