Education
Harvard University; Princeton University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Kiran Kedlaya
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Career
He currently is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".
He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was also a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, winning one episode.
Achievements
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At age 16, Kedlaya won a gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and would later win a silver and another gold medal. Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1996 Morgan Prize, for a paper in which he substantially improved on results of Babai and Sós (1985) on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n.
Membership
American Mathematical Society.
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Morgan Prize
The Morgan Prize (actually Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the United States, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research.The Morgan Prize (actually Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the United States, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research.