Philip Kutzko

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Philip Kutzko
Born (1946-11-24) November 24, 1946 (age 78) [1]
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forWorks on Langlands program
Awards AMS Distinguished Public Service Award (2014) [2]
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Iowa
Doctoral advisor Donald McQuillan

Philip Caesar Kutzko (born November 24, 1946) is a prominent American mathematician recognized for his contributions to the field of representation theory, particularly in the context of the Langlands program. He has also lead very successful initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in graduate mathematics programs. [3]

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Education and career

Kutzko studied mathematics at the City College of New York, earning a BS degree in 1967. Then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison he got an MS in 1968 and a PhD in 1972, under the supervision of Donald McQuillan for his thesis "The Characters of Binary-Modular Congruence Groups."

Then as a postdoctoral fellow, he went to Princeton University where he became an instructor in 1972, an assistant professor in 1974, an associate professor in 1977, and a full professor in 1977. In 1980 he went to the University of Iowa (U of I) where he was a full professor until he retired in 2017.

He had a distinguished career at U of I, contributing both to mathematics, particularly in representation theory, and to initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in graduate mathematics programs. His work in promoting inclusivity in mathematics earned him considerable recognition, complementing his research achievements. [4]

Work

In 1980, Kutzko proved the local Langlands conjectures for the general linear group GL2(K) over local fields. [5] In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to representations of p-adic groups and the local Langlands program, as well as for recruitment and mentoring of under-represented minority students." [6]

In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley with a talk "On the supercuspidal representations of GL2". [7]

His research has had a profound influence on representation theory, particularly through his work on the representation theory of p-adic groups. [8]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service:  linked authority record n92089225.
  2. 1 2 2014 Award for Distinguished Public Service Notices of the AMS Vol 61, No 4, April 2014
  3. ↑ The Math Alliance and Its Roots in the African American Community by David Goldberg and Phil Kutzko, Notices of the AMS Vol 65, No 2, February 2018
  4. ↑ Newsmaker: Philip Kutzko By IAM Staff, Iowa Alumni Magazine, October 2009
  5. ↑ Kutzko, Philip (1980). "The Langlands Conjecture for Gl2 of a Local Field". Annals of Mathematics . 112 (2): 381–412. doi:10.2307/1971151. JSTOR   1971151.
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-17
  7. ↑ On the Supercuspidal Representations of GL2The Johns Hopkins University Press, Feb, 1978
  8. ↑ New Developments in Representation Theory of p-adic Groups Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 5 October 2019, DOI: 10.4171
  9. 1 2 Philip Kutzko - Principal Investigator National Science Foundation Grants, Sep 1, 2009
  10. ↑ This award was presented to Dr. Kutzko by President Obama in a White House ceremony in January 2010.
  11. ↑ Awarded to The University of Iowa mathematics department, under Kutzko's leadership
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