Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Room 2-165
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
phone: 1-617-253-2946
fax: 1-617-253-4358
email: kedlaya[at]mit[dot]edu (public key)
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News (see also past news)

Recently added to my publications page: the current version of my course notes on p-adic differential equations (from fall 2007), and the fourth and final installment of my series on semistable reduction for overconvergent F-isocrystals. (21 Feb 08)

Fast facts (see also my CV)

Teaching: for fall 2008, 18.022 (no web page yet) and 18.S34 (the Putnam freshman seminar; no web page yet). See my past courses.

Research areas: number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry. Specialties: p-adic analytic methods in arithmetic geometry, p-adic Hodge theory, algorithms in arithmetic geometry, applications in computer science (notably cryptography).

Editorial activity: International Math. Research Notices.

Directorial activity: USA Mathematical Olympiad committee, Art of Problem Solving Foundation board of directors, cogito.org advisory board, Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions advisory board (AMS representative).

Current grants: NSF CAREER grant DMS-0545904, Sloan Research Fellowship.

Awards: 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Software: On my computer dwork.mit.edu, I maintain Magma (command magma) and Sage (command sage). I also maintain an install of Sage on Athena (in the sage locker: run add sage; sage), but only for Linux machines such as Linerva.

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