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Vinayak Vatsal

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Vinayak Vatsal is a Canadian mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic geometry.

Education

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Vatsal received his B.Sc. degree in 1992 from Stanford University and a Ph.D. (thesis title: Iwasawa Theory, modular forms and Artin representations) in 1997 from Princeton University under the supervision of Andrew Wiles who had just completed his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[1][2] He then became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.[1]

Career and research

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Vatsal joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia in 1999 where he still works today.

Vatsal's contributions include his work on the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves, a field which he approached using novel ideas from ergodic theory.[1]

Vatsal has received numerous accolades. He was a Sloan Fellow in 2002–2004 and a recipient of the André Aisenstadt Prize (2004), the Ribenboim Prize (2006) and the Coxeter–James Prize (2007).[1] In 2008, he was an invited speaker at the 2008 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.[1]

Selected publications

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  • Uniform distribution of Heegner Points, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 148, 2002, pp. 1–48 (Proof of a conjecture of Barry Mazur)
  • with Ralph Greenberg Iwasawa Invariants of Elliptic Curves, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol 142, 2000, pp. 17–63
  • Special values of anticyclotomic L-functions, Duke Mathematical Journal, vol. 116, 2003, pp. 219–261
  • with C. Cornut Nontriviality of Rankin-Selberg L-functions and CM points, in Burns, Kevin Buzzard, Nekovar (eds), L-functions and Galois Representations, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 121–186
  • with C. Cornut CM points and quaternion algebras, Documenta Mathematica, volume 10, 2005

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "2007 Coxeter–James Prize" (PDF). Canadian Mathematical Society. 2007.
  2. ^ "Vinayak Vatsal – The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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