Stephen S. Kudla (born 1950 Caracas, Venezuela) is an American mathematician working in

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and

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s. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the

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Life

After receiving his doctorate, Kudla spent a year at the

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in Princeton, following which he joined the faculty at the

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. Since 2006, he has been a

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Professor at the

. In 1997, he discovered relationships between the Fourier coefficients of derivatives of Siegel Eisenstein series and arithmetic invariants of Shimura varieties (heights pairings of arithmetic cycles). He was a Sloan Fellow in 1981, received the Max-Planck Research Award in 2000, and the

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of the

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in 2009. He was an Invited Speaker at the 2002

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in Beijing, where he gave a lecture on "Derivatives of Eisenstein series and arithmetic geometry". He is on the Scientific Review Panel of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). Since 2004, he has been the co-editor of the

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, and the co-organizer of several conferences at the

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Education

*Ph.D.

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

1975; Dissertation: Real Points on Algebraic Varieties Defined by Quaternion Algebras. Advisor: Michio Kuga.The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Stephen Kudla
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Selected publications

* with

Michael Rapoport Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician. Career Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne. He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the Uni ...

, T. Yang
''Modular forms and special cycles on Shimura curves.''
In: ''Annals of Mathematics Studies.'' 161. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. x+373 pages

References

Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Stony Brook University alumni 1950 births {{academic-stub