Professor Fred Diamond
Professor of Number Theory
Research interests
- Mathematics
Biography
Professor Diamond received his BA from the University of Michigan in 1984, and his PhD from Princeton University in 1988 under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. He taught at several universities in the US, including Columbia, MIT, Rutgers and Brandeis, before moving to King's in 2006. He was awarded a Centennial Fellowship by the American Mathematical Society in 1997 and has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the IHES in Paris. He is the author of numerous research and expository articles, as well as a textbook with Shurman on modular forms.
Research Interests
His main research interests are modular forms and Galois representations, and in particular the relations between them predicted by the Langlands Programme. To this end, some of his work further developed the techniques introduced by Wiles and Taylor in the course of Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, and in 1999, together with Breuil, Conrad and Taylor, he completed the proof of the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture stating that every elliptic curve over rational numbers can be associated to a modular form. His current focus is on mod p and p-adic Langlands correspondences.
Further Information
Research
Number Theory
King's has a strong tradition of research in number theory that continues to this day
News
Professor Emeritus Colin Bushnell awarded Compositio Mathematica Prize
Professor Emeritus Colin Bushnell, who passed away in January, has been awarded the Compositio Mathematica Prize for his article with Guy Henniart, Local...
London School of Geometry & Number Theory renewed through £5.6m EPSRC award
The London School of Geometry & Number Theory (LSGNT), an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) jointly run by King's, Imperial College London and...
Events
The London-Paris number theory seminar
The London-Paris number theory seminar meets twice per year, once in London and once in Paris.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Number Theory
King's has a strong tradition of research in number theory that continues to this day
News
Professor Emeritus Colin Bushnell awarded Compositio Mathematica Prize
Professor Emeritus Colin Bushnell, who passed away in January, has been awarded the Compositio Mathematica Prize for his article with Guy Henniart, Local...
London School of Geometry & Number Theory renewed through £5.6m EPSRC award
The London School of Geometry & Number Theory (LSGNT), an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) jointly run by King's, Imperial College London and...
Events
The London-Paris number theory seminar
The London-Paris number theory seminar meets twice per year, once in London and once in Paris.
Please note: this event has passed.