Chandrashekhar B. Khare (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the

University of California Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mat ...

by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger. He has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the

Infosys Prize The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to r ...

from 2015, serving as Jury Chair from 2020.

Professional career

Resident of

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and completed his undergraduate education at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

. He finished his thesis in 1995 under the supervision of Haruzo Hida at

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. His Ph.D. thesis was published in the '' Duke Mathematical Journal''. He proved Serre's conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, published in '' Inventiones Mathematicae''. He started his career as a Fellow at

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the ...

. As of the year 2021, he is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

Khare is the winner of the INSA Young Scientist Award (1999),

Fermat Prize The Fermat prize of mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive: * Statements of variational principles * Foundations of probability and analytic geometry * Numbe ...

(2007), the

(2010), and the Cole Prize (2011). He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory". In 2012 he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

and was elected as a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

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External links

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Chandrashekhar Khare's homepage
* 1968 births Living people Indian number theorists 21st-century Indian mathematicians Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars University of California, Los Angeles faculty American Hindus 20th-century Indian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Royal Society American people of Marathi descent American people of Indian descent California Institute of Technology alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{asia-mathematician-stub