Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor
Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor
School of Mathematics

A leader in the field of number theory and in particular Galois representations, automorphic forms, and Shimura variations, Richard Taylor, with his collaborators, has developed powerful new techniques for use in solving longstanding problems, including the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture, and the Sato-Tate conjecture. Currently, Taylor is interested in the relationship between l-adic representations for automorphic forms—how to construct l-adic representations for automorphic forms and how to prove given l-adic representations that arise in this way.

Princeton University, Ph.D. 1988; Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Royal Society Exchange Fellow 1988–89; University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer 1989–92, Lecturer 1992–94, and Reader 1994–95; University of Oxford, Savilian Professor of Geometry 1995–96; Harvard University, Professor 1996–2002, Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics 2002–12; Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Visiting Professor 2010–11, Professor 2012–13, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor 2013–; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member; American Mathematical Society, Fellow; Royal Society of London, Fellow; Ostrowski Prize 2001; Fermat Prize 2001; American Mathematical Society, Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory 2002; Academy of Sciences at Göttingen, Dannie Heineman Prize 2005; Clay Research Award 2007; Shaw Prize in Mathematics 2007

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