Dennis Gaitsgory

Dennis Gaitsgory
Born	Chișinău, Moldovan SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University
Awards	EMS Prize (2000) Chevalley Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Harvard University University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Joseph Bernstein

Dennis Gaitsgory is an Israeli-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and is known for his research on the geometric Langlands program.

Life and career

Born in Chișinău (now in Moldova) he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein (1990–1996). He received his doctorate in 1997 for a thesis entitled "Automorphic Sheaves and Eisenstein Series". He has been awarded a Harvard Junior Fellowship, a Clay Research Fellowship, and the prize of the European Mathematical Society for his work.

His work in geometric Langlands culminated in a joint 2002 paper with Edward Frenkel and Kari Vilonen, establishing the conjecture for finite fields, and a separate 2004 paper, generalizing the proof to include the field of complex numbers as well.

Prior to his 2005 appointment at Harvard, he was an associate professor at the University of Chicago from 2001–2005.

Selected publications

• Gaitsgory, Dennis; Rozenblyum, Nick (2017). A Study in Derived Algebraic Geometry. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-3569-1.
• Gaitsgory, Dennis; Lurie, Jacob (19 February 2019). Weil's Conjecture for Function Fields: Volume I (AMS-199). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-18443-2.

External links

• Dennis Gaitsgory at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Gaitsgory's thesis