| Colin John Bushnell | |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Alma Mater: | King's College London |
| Thesis Title: | Representations of 2-graded groups |
| Thesis Year: | 1972 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Albrecht Fröhlich |
Colin John Bushnell (1947 – 1 January 2021) was a British mathematician specialising in number theory and representation theory. He spent most of his career at King's College London, including a stint as the head of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, and made several contributions to the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups and the local Langlands correspondence.
Bushnell was born in 1947.[1] He studied mathematics at King's College London, where he received his first class honors undergraduate degree and then a Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Albrecht Fröhlich.[2]
From 1972 to 1975, Bushnell was a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] He returned to King's College London in 1975 as Lecturer, before being promoted to Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1990.[2] From 1988 to 1989, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] From 1996 to 1997, he was a chairman of the mathematics department and from 1997 to 2004 he was the head of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering.[2] He retired in 2014.[2] He died on 1 January 2021 at the age of 73.[1]
Bushnell has advised doctoral students including Graham Everest.
Bushnell's research included "major contributions to the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups and the study of the local Langlands correspondence."[1]
In 1994, Bushnell was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (Smooth representations of p-adic groups: the role of compact open subgroups).[2]
In 1995, Bushnell was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize.[2] In 2002, he became a Fellow of King's College London.[2] He was inaugurated in the 2013 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[2] [4]