Toby Stephen Gee (born 2 January 1980) is a British

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working in number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands Program. He specialises in

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. Gee was awarded the

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in 2012, the

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in 2012, and was elected as a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

in 2014.

Career

Gee read mathematics at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

, where he was Senior Wrangler in 2000. After completing his

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with Kevin Buzzard at

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in 2004, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

until 2010. From 2010 to 2011 Gee was an assistant professor at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, at which point he moved to Imperial College London, where he has been a professor since 2013. With

Mark Kisin Mark Kisin is a mathematician known for work in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. In particular, he is known for his contributions to the study of p-adic representations and p-adic cohomology. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania and raise ...

, he proved the Breuil–Mézard conjecture for potentially Barsotti–Tate representations, and with

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and David Geraghty, he proved the Sato–Tate conjecture for

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s. One of his most influential ideas has been the introduction of a general 'philosophy of weights', which has immensely clarified some aspects of the emerging mod ''p'' Langlands philosophy.

References

External links

Toby Gee's Professional Webpage

Toby Gee's Curriculum Vitae
* 1980 births British mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Whitehead Prize winners Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Living people {{UK-mathematician-stub