Dennis Gaitsgory ^People

Born in Chisināu, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv Universityunder Joseph Bernstein (1990-1996). He received his doctorate in1997 for a thesis entitled Automorphic Sheavesand Eisenstein Series. He has been awarded a Harvard Junior Fellowship, a Clay Research Fellowship, and the prize of the European Mathematical Society for his work.His work in geometric Langlands culminated in a joint 2002 paper with Edward Frenkel and Kari Vilonen, On the geometric Langlands conjecture establishing the conjecture for finite fields, and a separate 2004 paper, On a vanishing conjecture appearing in the geometric Langlands correspondence, generalizing the proof t o ni- clude the field of complex numbers as wel. Prior to his 2005 appointment at Harvard, he was an associate professor at the University of Chicago from 2001-2005. Dennis Gaitsgory has made important contributions to the geometric Langlands program. For his work he has been awarded a Harvard Junior Fellowship, the prize of the European Mathematical Society, and a Clay Research Fellowship. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. In 2020 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis Gaitsgory is a newly appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. He will join the three active direc- tors Gerd Faltings, Peter Teichner, and Peter Scholze in July 2021.