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Professor David Burns
Professor of Number Theory
Research interests
- Mathematics
Biography
Biography
Before coming to King's, Professor Burns was both an undergraduate and graduate student, and then a Junior Research Fellow, at the University of Cambridge.
Since coming to King's, he has held Visiting Fellowships at several international research institutes as well as Visiting Professorships at a variety of institutions including the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris and Harvard.
He was awarded the Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 1999 and, more recently, a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2005 and a Supervisory Excellence Award by the Centre for Doctoral Studies of King's in 2008.
Research interests
- The Tamagawa Number Conjecture of Bloch and Kato (and its equivariant refinement).
- Iwasawa Theory (including aspects of non-commutative Iwasawa Theory).
- Stark's Conjecture (and various natural integral refinements of this conjecture).
- Epsilon constants and de Rham structure invariants associated to arithmetic schemes with a finite group action.
- Algebraic K-theory and homological algebra.
Further information
Research
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Number Theory
King's College London has a strong tradition of research in number theory, and this continues today with a particular emphasis on algebraic and representation-theoretic aspects of the subject.
Events
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British Mathematical Colloquium 2022
The 73rd British Mathematical Colloquium, the principal cross-disciplinary meeting for pure and applicable mathematics in the UK, will take place in King's...
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Research
![ARTICLE Equations Hand Written](/newimages/nmes/main-article-780X450/article-equations-hand-written.xd1d81f40.jpg?w=780&h=450&crop=780,440,0,5&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Number Theory
King's College London has a strong tradition of research in number theory, and this continues today with a particular emphasis on algebraic and representation-theoretic aspects of the subject.
Events
![Teacher-Blackboard](/ImportedImages/Study/WP/Teacher-Blackboard.xb467968f.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&f=webp)
British Mathematical Colloquium 2022
The 73rd British Mathematical Colloquium, the principal cross-disciplinary meeting for pure and applicable mathematics in the UK, will take place in King's...
Please note: this event has passed.