Samit Dasgupta is a professor of mathematics at Duke University working in algebraic number theory.

Biography

Dasgupta graduated from

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in 1995 and placed fourth in the 1995

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with a project on Schinzel's hypothesis H. He then attended

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, 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 land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

under the supervision of

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and Henri Darmon. Dasgupta was previously a faculty member at

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge ...

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

Research

Dasgupta's research is focused on special values of L-functions, algebraic points on

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, and

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s in

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

Heegner point In mathematics, a Heegner point is a point on a modular curve that is the image of a quadratic imaginary point of the upper half-plane. They were defined by Bryan Birch and named after Kurt Heegner, who used similar ideas to prove Gauss's conje ...

Awards

In 2009, Dasgupta received a

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. 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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