Kumar Murty

Vijaya Kumar Murty FRSC (born 20 May 1956) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working primarily in number theory. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and is the Director of the Fields Institute.

Early life and education

V. Kumar Murty is the brother of mathematician M. Ram Murty.[1]

Murty obtained his BSc in 1977 from Carleton University[2] and his PhD in mathematics in 1982 from Harvard University under John Tate.[3]

Career

From 1982 to 1987, he held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Concordia University, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. In 1987, he was appointed as Associate Professor at the Downtown campus of the University of Toronto, and 1991 he was promoted to Full Professor. In 2001, he was deputed to the Mississauga campus to serve a two-year term as Associate Chair of Mathematics, and from 2004 to 2007 he served as the inaugural Chair of the newly-created Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Mississauga campus. Twice he was Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto Downtown campus (2008-2013 and 2014-2017).

Murty became the director of Fields Institute in 2019.[4]

Murty has served on the Canadian Mathematical Society Board of Directors and as vice president of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

Research

Murty’s research is in areas of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, information security, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. He and his brother, M. Ram Murty, have written more than 20 joint papers.[5]

In 2020, Murty received a $666,667 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for setting up the COVID-19 Mathematical Modelling Rapid Response Task Force, a network of experts who will work to predict outbreak trajectories for the disease, measure public health interventions and provide real-time advice to policy-makers. It’s one of eight COVID-19 research projects at the University of Toronto.[6]

Awards

Murty was elected a Fields Institute Fellow in 2003. Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1991 from the Canadian Mathematical Society.[7] He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.[8] In 1996, he, along with his brother, M. Ram Murty, received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize[9] for the book "Non-vanishing of L-functions and applications."[10]

In 2018, the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.[11] He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to number theory, including the theory of L-functions associated to modular forms, and arithmetic geometry, and for service to the profession".[12]

References

  1. ↑ Alex Michalos (editor), The Best Teacher I ever Had, Personal Reports from Highly Productive Scholars, The University of Western Ontario, London, 2003, 290p. ISBN 0-920354-53-X.
  2. ↑ Akbary, Amir; Gun, Sanoli (2018). Geometry, algebra, number theory, and their information technology applications : Toronto, Canada, June, 2016, and Kozhikode, India, August, 2016. Cham, Switzerland. p. 9. ISBN 978-3-319-97379-1. OCLC 1053888134.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ Vijaya Kumar Murty at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Professor Kumar Murty is selected as the next Director of the Fields Institute". Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  5. ↑ List of papers at Mathematical Reviews American Mathematical Society.
  6. ↑ "Nine U of T researchers — including Math's Vijaya Kumar Murty — receive federal grants for COVID-19 projects". Faculty of Arts & Science. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  7. ↑ Coxeter-James Prize Coxeter-James Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society.
  8. ↑ Search page on Royal Society Home Page.
  9. ↑ The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  10. ↑ M. Ram Murty and V. Kumar Murty (1996). Non-vanishing of L-functions and applications. Springer Science & Business Media/Birkhäuser. p. 196. ISBN 978-3-0348-0273-4.
  11. ↑ Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
  12. ↑ "2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.