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Fred Diamond

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

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    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...

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    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...

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    Events

    16Maymaths numbers

    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 780 x 440
      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...

      An open book displaying mathematical equations

      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...

      Purple and blue heaxagons in abstract network pattern

      Events

      16Maymaths numbers

      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.