Michael Harris (mathematician)


Michael Howard Harris is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Columbia University who specializes in number theory and algebra. He made notable contributions to the Langlands program, for which he won the 2007 Clay Research Award. In particular, he proved the local Langlands conjecture for GL over a p-adic local field, and he was part of the team that proved the Sato–Tate conjecture.

Education

Harris attained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1977, under supervision of Barry Mazur. His thesis, entitled "On p-Adic Representations Arising from Descent on Abelian Varieties", was later published in Compositio Mathematica.

Works

Recognition

He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to arithmetic geometry, particularly the theory of automorphic forms, L-functions and motives".