Samit Dasgupta

Samit Dasgupta is a professor of mathematics at Duke University working in algebraic number theory.

Samit Dasgupta
Alma mater	Harvard University University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Sloan Research Fellowship (2009)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Duke University
Thesis	Gross-Stark Units, Stark-Heegner Points, and Class Fields of Real Quadratic Fields  (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Ken Ribet Henri Darmon

Biography

Dasgupta graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1995 and placed fourth in the 1995 Westinghouse Science Talent Search with a project on Schinzel's hypothesis H.^[1] He then attended Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1999.^[1][2] In 2004, Dasgupta received a PhD in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Ken Ribet and Henri Darmon.^[3]

Dasgupta was previously a faculty member at University of California, Santa Cruz.^[1] As of 2020, he is a professor of mathematics at Duke University.^[2][4]

Research

Dasgupta's research is focused on special values of L-functions, algebraic points on abelian varieties, and units in number fields.^[5] In particular, Dasgupta's research has focused on the Stark conjectures and Heegner points.^[3][6][7][8]

Awards

In 2009, Dasgupta received a Sloan Research Fellowship.^[5] He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to number theory, in particular the theory of special values of classical and p-adic L-functions".^[9]

Selected publications

• Darmon, Henri; Dasgupta, Samit (2006). "Elliptic units for real quadratic fields". Annals of Mathematics. 163 (1): 301–346. doi:10.4007/annals.2006.163.301. ISSN 0003-486X.
• Dasgupta, Samit; Darmon, Henri; Pollack, Robert (2011). "Hilbert modular forms and the Gross-Stark conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. 174 (1): 439–484. doi:10.4007/annals.2011.174.1.12. ISSN 0003-486X.
• Dasgupta, Samit; Kakde, Mahesh; Ventullo, Kevin (2018). "On the Gross–Stark Conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. 188 (3): 833. doi:10.4007/annals.2018.188.3.3. JSTOR 10.4007/annals.2018.188.3.3. S2CID 53554124.
• Dasgupta, Samit; Spieß, Michael (2018). "Partial zeta values, Gross's tower of fields conjecture, and Gross–Stark units". Journal of the European Mathematical Society. 20 (11): 2643–2683. doi:10.4171/JEMS/821. ISSN 1435-9855.
• Dasgupta, Samit (2016). "Factorization of p-adic Rankin L-series". Inventiones Mathematicae. 205 (1): 221–268. Bibcode:2016InMat.205..221D. doi:10.1007/s00222-015-0634-4. ISSN 0020-9910. S2CID 17144046.