Toby Gee Explained

Toby Stephen Gee
Birth Date:2 January 1980
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis Title:Companion Forms Over Totally Real Fields
Thesis Url:https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00229-007-0128-9.pdf
Thesis Year:2004
Doctoral Advisor:Kevin Buzzard
Field:Mathematics

Toby Stephen Gee (born 2 January 1980) is a British mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands Program. He specialises in algebraic number theory.

Gee was awarded the Whitehead Prize in 2012,[1] the Leverhulme Prize in 2012,[2] and was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2014[3] and of the Royal Society in 2024.[4]

Career

Gee read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 2000. After completing his PhD with Kevin Buzzard at Imperial College in 2004, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University until 2010. From 2010 to 2011 Gee was an assistant professor at Northwestern University, at which point he moved to Imperial College London, where he has been a professor since 2013.[5]

With Mark Kisin, he proved the Breuil–Mézard conjecture for potentially Barsotti–Tate representations,[6] and with Thomas Barnet-Lamb and David Geraghty, he proved the Sato–Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular forms.[7] One of his most influential ideas has been the introduction of a general 'philosophy of weights', which has clarified some aspects of the emerging mod p Langlands philosophy.[8]

References

  1. Web site: Prizes 2012. London Mathematical Society.
  2. Web site: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2012. The Leverhulme Trust.
  3. Web site: 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS. American Mathematical Society.
  4. Web site: Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society . 2024-05-18 . Royal Society . en.
  5. Web site: Curriculum vitae. Imperial College. 2024-04-07.
  6. Gee. Toby. Kisin. Mark. December 2014. The Breuil–Mézard Conjecture For Potentially Barsotti–Tate Representations. Forum of Mathematics, Pi. en. 2. 10.1017/fmp.2014.1. 2050-5086. 1208.3179. 16351884.
  7. Barnet-Lamb. Thomas. Gee. Toby. Geraghty. David. 2011. The Sato–Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular forms. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. en-US. 24. 2. 411–469. 10.1090/S0894-0347-2010-00689-3. 0894-0347. 0912.1054. 12534084.
  8. 2013-04-01. Prizewinners 2012. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. en. 45. 2. 421–428. 10.1112/blms/bdt015. 247674468 . 0024-6093.

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