Samit Dasgupta is a professor of mathematics at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

working in

algebraic number theory Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations. Number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic ob ...

Biography

Dasgupta graduated from

Montgomery Blair High School Montgomery Blair High School (MBHS) is a State school, public Secondary school, high school in the Four Corners, Maryland, Four Corners neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. It is operated by Montgomery County Public Schools (M ...

in 1995 and placed fourth in the 1995

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with a project on

Schinzel's hypothesis H In mathematics, Schinzel's hypothesis H is one of the most famous open problems in the topic of number theory. It is a very broad generalization of widely open conjectures such as the twin prime conjecture. The hypothesis is named after Andrzej S ...

. He then attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1999. In 2004, Dasgupta received a PhD in mathematics from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

under the supervision of

Ken Ribet Kenneth Alan Ribet (; born June 28, 1948) is an American mathematician working in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He is known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem, which were key ingredients in the proof of Fermat ...

and

Henri Darmon Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French-Canadian mathematician. He is a number theorist who works on Hilbert's 12th problem and its relation with the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He is currently a professor of mathematics at ...

. Dasgupta was previously a faculty member at

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. As of 2020, he is a professor of mathematics at Duke University.

Research

Dasgupta's research is focused on

special values of L-functions In mathematics, the study of special values of -functions is a subfield of number theory devoted to generalising formulae such as the Leibniz formula for , namely 1 \,-\, \frac \,+\, \frac \,-\, \frac \,+\, \frac \,-\, \cdots \;=\; \frac,\! by ...

, algebraic points on

abelian varieties In mathematics, particularly in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and algebraic number theory, an abelian variety is a smooth projective algebraic variety that is also an algebraic group, i.e., has a group law that can be defined by regular f ...

, and

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s in

number field In mathematics, an algebraic number field (or simply number field) is an extension field K of the field of rational numbers such that the field extension K / \mathbb has finite degree (and hence is an algebraic field extension). Thus K is a ...

s. In particular, Dasgupta's research has focused on the

Stark conjectures In number theory, the Stark conjectures, introduced by and later expanded by , give conjectural information about the coefficient of the leading term in the Taylor expansion of an Artin L-function associated with a Galois extension ''K''/''k'' o ...

and Heegner points.

Awards

In 2009, Dasgupta received a

Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

. He was named a Fellow of the

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, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to number theory, in particular the theory of special values of classical and p-adic L-functions".

Selected publications

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References

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