Bhargav Bhatt (born 1983) is a mathematician who is the Fernholz Joint Professor at the

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and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

and works in

arithmetic geometry In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties. ...

and

commutative algebra Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory build on commutative algebra. Promi ...

Early life and education

Bhatt graduated with an B.S. in Applied Mathematics, ''

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'' from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

under the supervision of Shou-Wu Zhang. He received his Ph.D. from

in 2010 under the supervision of

Aise Johan de Jong Aise Johan de Jong (born 30 January 1966) is a Dutch mathematician born in Belgium. He currently is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests include arithmetic geometry and algebraic geometry. Education De Jong ...

Career

Bhatt was a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in mathematics at the

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from 2010 to 2014 (on leave from 2012 to 2014). Bhatt was a member of the

from 2012 to 2014. He then returned to the University of Michigan, serving as an Associate Professor from 2014 to 2015, a Gehring Associate Professor from 2015 to 2018, a Professor from 2018 to 2020, and a Frederick W and Lois B Gehring Professor since 2020. In July 2022, he was appointed as the Fernholz Joint Professor in the School of Mathematics at the

, with a joint appointment at

Research

Bhatt's research focuses on

and

, especially on ''p''-adic cohomology. Bhatt and Peter Scholze have developed a theory of prismatic cohomology, which has been described as progress towards

motivic cohomology Motivic cohomology is an invariant of algebraic varieties and of more general schemes. It is a type of cohomology related to motives and includes the Chow ring of algebraic cycles as a special case. Some of the deepest problems in algebraic geome ...

by unifying

singular cohomology In mathematics, specifically in homology theory and algebraic topology, cohomology is a general term for a sequence of abelian groups, usually one associated with a topological space, often defined from a cochain complex. Cohomology can be viewe ...

de Rham cohomology In mathematics, de Rham cohomology (named after Georges de Rham) is a tool belonging both to algebraic topology and to differential topology, capable of expressing basic topological information about smooth manifolds in a form particularly adap ...

, ℓ-adic cohomology, and

crystalline cohomology In mathematics, crystalline cohomology is a Weil cohomology theory for schemes ''X'' over a base field ''k''. Its values ''H'n''(''X''/''W'') are modules over the ring ''W'' of Witt vectors over ''k''. It was introduced by and developed by ...

Awards

In 2015, Bhatt was awarded a 5-year

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. Bhatt received the 2021

New Horizons in Mathematics Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics is an annual award of the Breakthrough Prize series announced in 2013. It is funded by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg and others. The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million. The Breakthrough Prize ...

. He was elected to become a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2021. Also in 2021 he received the

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. In 2022 he was awarded the

Nemmers Prize in Mathematics The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is awarded biennially from Northwestern University. It was initially endowed along with a companion prize, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, as part of a $14 million donation from the Nemme ...

.Nemmers Prize in Mathematics 2022
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Selected publications

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References

External links

Website of Bhargav Bhatt
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