| RefNo | EC/2019/50 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Venkatesh, Akshay: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 28 March 2019 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Akshay Venkatesh as a Fellow of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Fellow and citing the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Akshay Venkatesh is one of the leading number theorists in the world. His works range from representation theory to the arithmetic and topology of locally symmetric spaces and homogeneous dynamics, and especially their applications to diophantine problems. His breakthroughs have led to the resolution of or advances on long standing problems, including Hilbert's 11- th problem on solving quadratic equations in integers in a number field, Cohen Lenstra heuristics for class groups of function fields, and the cohomology of arithmetic locally symmetric spaces of positive defect .His fundamental new insights connect these subjects in unexpected and decisive ways. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |