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| name              = Chandrashekhar Khare
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| birth_date        = 1968
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| nationality       = {{flag|India}}
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]
| alma_mater        = [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]]<br>[[Cambridge University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Haruzo Hida]]<br>[[Dinakar Ramakrishnan]]
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| known_for         = Proof of [[Serre conjecture (number theory)|Serre conjecture]]
| awards            = INSA Young Scientist Award (1999)<br>[[Fermat Prize]] (2007)<br>[[Infosys Prize]] (2010)<br>[[Cole Prize]] (2011)
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'''Chandrashekhar B. Khare''' (born 1968) is a professor of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of California Los Angeles]]. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of [[Galois representations]] and [[number theory]] by proving the level 1 [[Serre conjecture (number theory)|Serre conjecture]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Khare |first=Chandrashekhar |title=Serre's modularity conjecture: The level one case |year=2006 |journal=Duke Mathematical Journal |volume=134 |issue=3 |pages=557–589 |doi=10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13434-8 }}.</ref> and later a proof of the full conjecture with [[Jean-Pierre Wintenberger]]. He has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2015, serving as Jury Chair from 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2020|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2020.asp|access-date=2020-12-10|website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com}}</ref>

==Professional career==
Resident of [[Mumbai]], [[India]] and completed his undergraduate education at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. He finished his thesis in 1995 under the supervision of [[Haruzo Hida]] at [[California Institute of Technology]]. His Ph.D. thesis was published in the  ''[[Duke Mathematical Journal]]''. He proved Serre's conjecture with [[Jean-Pierre Wintenberger]], published in ''[[Inventiones Mathematicae]]''.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Khare |first1=Chandrashekhar |last2=Wintenberger |first2=Jean-Pierre |year=2009 |title=Serre's modularity conjecture (I) |journal=Inventiones Mathematicae |volume=178 |issue=3 |pages=485–504 |doi=10.1007/s00222-009-0205-7 |bibcode=2009InMat.178..485K |citeseerx=10.1.1.518.4611 |s2cid=14846347 }} and {{Citation |last1=Khare |first1=Chandrashekhar |last2=Wintenberger |first2=Jean-Pierre |year=2009 |title=Serre's modularity conjecture (II) |journal=Inventiones Mathematicae |volume=178 |issue=3 |pages=505–586 |doi=10.1007/s00222-009-0206-6 |bibcode=2009InMat.178..505K |citeseerx=10.1.1.228.8022 |s2cid=189820189 }}.</ref>

He started his career as a Fellow at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. As of the year 2021, he is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

==Awards and honors==
Khare is the winner of the INSA Young Scientist Award (1999),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php |title=INSA Young Scientist Award |access-date=20 August 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131011230428/http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php |archive-date=11 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Fermat Prize]] (2007), the [[Infosys Prize]] (2010),<ref>[http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/infosys-prize-2010-winners.html#mathematicalsciences Infosys Prize 2010 - Mathematical Sciences] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117022339/http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/infosys-prize-2010-winners.html#mathematicalsciences |date=17 November 2010 }}</ref> and the [[Cole Prize]] (2011).

He gave an [[list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers|invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians]] in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".{{cite web|title=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897|url=http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php|publisher=[[International Congress of Mathematicians]]}}

In 2012 he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]]<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-01-27.</ref> and was elected as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/six-scientists-of-indian-origin-elected-fellows-of-royal-society/article3342952.ece|author=Hasan Suroor|title=Six scientists of Indian origin elected Fellows of Royal Society|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 April 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20080329115336/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/04/25/stories/2005042506530100.htm Going beyond Fermat's last theorem]}}
*[https://www.math.ucla.edu/~shekhar/ Chandrashekhar Khare's homepage]
*[http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/serre/index.html Another proof for Fermat's last theorem]
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[[Category:1968 births]]
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[[Category:Indian number theorists]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian mathematicians]]
[[Category:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars]]
[[Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty]]
[[Category:American Hindus]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian mathematicians]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
[[Category:American people of Marathi descent]]
[[Category:American people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:California Institute of Technology alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]]


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