Frank Calegari

Frank Calegari
Born (1975-12-15) 15 December 1975 (age 49)
CitizenshipAustralia
United States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
RelativesDanny Calegari (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis Ramification and Semistable Abelian Varieties  (2002)
Doctoral advisorKen Ribet

Francesco Damien "Frank" Calegari is a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago working in number theory and the Langlands program.

Early life and education

Frank Calegari was born on December 15, 1975.[1] He has both Australian and American citizenship.[1]

He won a bronze medal and a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad while representing Australia in 1992 and 1993 respectively.[2] Calegari received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 under the supervision of Ken Ribet.[3]

Career

Calegari was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 2002 to 2006.[1] He then moved to Northwestern University, where he was an assistant professor from 2006 to 2009, an associate professor from 2009 to 2012, and a professor from 2012 to 2015.[1] He has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago since 2015.[1][4]

Calegari was a von Neumann Fellow of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2010 to 2011.[5]

Calegari was an editor at Mathematische Zeitschrift from 2013 to 2021.[1] He has been an editor of Algebra & Number Theory and an associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics since 2019.[1][6][7]

Research

Calegari works in algebraic number theory, including Langlands reciprocity and torsion classes in the cohomology of arithmetic groups.[4]

In collaboration with Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang, Calegari proved[8] the unbounded denominators conjecture of A.O.L. Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer[9]: if a modular form f(τ) is not modular for some congruence subgroup of the modular group, then the Fourier coefficients of f(τ) have unbounded denominators. It has been known for decades[10] that if f(τ) is modular for some congruence subgroup, then its coefficients have bounded denominators.

Also in collaboration with Dimitrov and Tang, he proved the linear independence of and [11]

Awards

Calegari held a 5-year American Institute of Mathematics Fellowship from 2002 to 2006 and a Sloan Research Fellowship from 2009 to 2012.[1][12] He was inducted as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.[1]

Selected publications

Personal life

Mathematician Danny Calegari is Frank Calegari's brother.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Frank Calegari (WebCV)" (PDF). Frank Calegari. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Frank Calegari". International Mathematical Olympiad. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  3. ^ Frank Calegari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b "Frank Calegari". University of Chicago. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Francesco Damien Calegari". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Mathematische Zeitschrift | Editors". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Editorial Board". Annals of Mathematics. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  8. ^ Calegari, Frank; Dimitrov, Vesselin; Tang, Yunqing (2021), The Unbounded Denominators Conjecture, p. 1-62, doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2109.09040, retrieved 9 January 2025
  9. ^ Atkin, A. O. L.; Swinnerton-Dyer, H. P. F. (1971), "Modular forms on noncongruence subgroups", Combinatorics (Univ. California, 1968): Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, vol. XIX, American Mathematical Society, pp. 1–26
  10. ^ Shimura, Gorō (1971). Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08092-5.
  11. ^ Calegari, Frank; Dimitrov, Vesselin; Tang, Yunqing (2024), The linear independence of $1$, $ζ(2)$, and $L(2,χ_{-3})$, doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2408.15403, retrieved 9 January 2025
  12. ^ "Frank Calegari". Frank Calegari. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Family, Collaborators, Students". Retrieved 6 March 2020.