Stephen S. Kudla
{{short description|Venezuelan American mathematician}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Stephen S. Kudla
| image = Kudla Stephen 2008.jpg
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| caption = Oberwolfach, 2008
| birth_date = 1950
| birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela
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| nationality = American
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = University of Maryland, College Park
University of Toronto
| alma_mater = Stony Brook University
| doctoral_advisor = Michio Kuga
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Kudla Program
| awards = Sloan Fellow
Max-Planck Research Award
Jeffery–Williams Prize
}}
Stephen S. Kudla {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (born 1950 Caracas, VenezuelaA Community of Scholars, The Institute for Advanced Study, Faculty and Members 1930–1980 [https://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf]) is an American mathematician working in arithmetic geometry and automorphic forms. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto.[https://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/kudla-stephen/ Kudla, Stephen » Department of Mathematics][http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=2300 Canada Research Chair – Stephen Kudla]
Life
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After receiving his doctorate, Kudla spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, following which he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park.[http://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/scientific-review-panel/past-members Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Past Members] Since 2006, he has been a Canada Research Chair Professor at the University of Toronto.
In 1997, he discovered relationships between the Fourier coefficients of derivatives of Siegel Eisenstein series and arithmetic invariants of Shimura varieties (heights pairings of arithmetic cycles).{{cite journal|last1=Kudla|first1=Stephen S.|title=Central Derivatives of Eisenstein Series and Height Pairings|journal=Annals of Mathematics|date=1997|volume=146|issue=3|pages=545–646|doi=10.2307/2952456|jstor=2952456}}
He was a Sloan Fellow in 1981, received the Max-Planck Research Award in 2000, and the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2009. He was an Invited Speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, where he gave a lecture on "Derivatives of Eisenstein series and arithmetic geometry". He is on the Scientific Review Panel of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). Since 2004, he has been the co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics, and the co-organizer of several conferences at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.
Education
- Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook 1975; Dissertation: Real Points on Algebraic Varieties Defined by Quaternion Algebras. Advisor: Michio Kuga.[https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=1117 The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Stephen Kudla]
Selected publications
- with Michael Rapoport, T. Yang: [https://books.google.com/books?id=nY33dPt3pT4C Modular forms and special cycles on Shimura curves.] In: Annals of Mathematics Studies. 161. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. x+373 pages {{ISBN|0-691-12551-1}} {{mr|2220359}}
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