Samit Dasgupta

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Samit Dasgupta
Alma mater Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Awards Sloan Research Fellowship (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Duke University
Thesis Gross-Stark Units, Stark-Heegner Points, and Class Fields of Real Quadratic Fields (2004)
Doctoral advisor Ken Ribet
Henri Darmon

Samit Dasgupta is a professor of mathematics at Duke University working in algebraic number theory.

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Biography

Dasgupta graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1995 and placed fourth in the 1995 Westinghouse Science Talent Search with a project on Schinzel's hypothesis H. [1] He then attended Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1999. [1] [2] In 2004, Dasgupta received a PhD in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Ken Ribet and Henri Darmon. [3]

Dasgupta was previously a faculty member at University of California, Santa Cruz. [1] As of 2020, he is a professor of mathematics at Duke University. [2] [4]

Research

Dasgupta's research is focused on special values of L-functions, algebraic points on abelian varieties, and units in number fields. [5] In particular, Dasgupta's research has focused on the Stark conjectures and Heegner points. [3] [6] [7] [8]

Awards

In 2009, Dasgupta received a Sloan Research Fellowship. [5] He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to number theory, in particular the theory of special values of classical and p-adic L-functions". [9]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Samit Dasgupta '95: Algebraic Number Theory". Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Foundation. Fall 2015. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Samit Dasgupta". Duke University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Samit Dasgupta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Samit Dasgupta". Duke University . Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "UC Santa Cruz Mathematician Samit Dasgupta Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship". Mathematical Association of America. February 20, 2009. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  6. Dasgupta, Samit; Darmon, Henri; Pollack, Robert (2011). "Hilbert modular forms and the Gross-Stark conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. 174 (1): 439–484. doi: 10.4007/annals.2011.174.1.12 . ISSN   0003-486X.
  7. Dasgupta, Samit; Kakde, Mahesh; Ventullo, Kevin (2018). "On the Gross–Stark Conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. 188 (3): 833. doi:10.4007/annals.2018.188.3.3. JSTOR   10.4007/annals.2018.188.3.3. S2CID   53554124.
  8. Dasgupta, Samit; Spieß, Michael (2018). "Partial zeta values, Gross's tower of fields conjecture, and Gross–Stark units". Journal of the European Mathematical Society . 20 (11): 2643–2683. doi:10.4171/JEMS/821. ISSN   1435-9855.
  9. "2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2021-11-05.