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

Education

Vatsal received his B.Sc. degree in 1992 from

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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. He then became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Career and research

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

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. 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 The Ribenboim Prize, named in honour of Paulo Ribenboim, is awarded by the Canadian Number Theory Association for distinguished research in number theory by a mathematician who is Canadian or has close connections to Canadian mathematics. Normally ...

(2006) and the

Coxeter–James Prize The Coxeter-James Prize is a mathematics award given by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) to recognize outstanding contributions to mathematics by young mathematicians in Canada. First presented in 1978, the prize is named after two renown ...

(2007). In 2008, he was an invited speaker at the 2008 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.

Selected publications

* ''Uniform distribution of Heegner Points'', ''

Inventiones Mathematicae ''Inventiones Mathematicae'' is a mathematical journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1966 and is regarded as one of the most prestigious mathematics journals in the world. The current managing editors ...

'', Vol. 148, 2002, pp. 1–48 (Proof of a conjecture of

Barry Mazur Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...

) * with

Ralph Greenberg Ralph Greenberg (born 1944) is an American mathematician who has made contributions to number theory, in particular Iwasawa theory. He was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.A. in 1966, after ...

''Iwasawa Invariants of Elliptic Curves'', ''Inventiones Mathematicae'', vol 142, 2000, pp. 17–63 * ''Special values of anticyclotomic L-functions'', ''

Duke Mathematical Journal ''Duke Mathematical Journal'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Duke University Press. It was established in 1935. The founding editors-in-chief were David Widder, Arthur Coble, and Joseph Miller Thomas Joseph Miller Thomas (16 ...

'', 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 The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathe ...

'', volume 10, 2005

References

External links

Vinayak Vatsal Homepage at UBC
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