Colin John Bushnell (1947 – 1 January 2021) was a British mathematician specialising in number theory and representation theory. He spent most of his career at King's College London, including a stint as the head of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, and made several contributions to the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups and the local Langlands correspondence.
Colin John Bushnell | |
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| Born | 1947 |
| Died | January 1, 2021 (aged 73–74) |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Representations of 2-graded groups (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albrecht Fröhlich |
Early life and education
editBushnell was born in 1947.[1] He studied mathematics at King's College London, where he received his first class honors undergraduate degree and then a Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Albrecht Fröhlich.[2][3]
Career
editFrom 1972 to 1975, Bushnell was a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] He returned to King's College London in 1975 as Lecturer, before being promoted to Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1990.[2] From 1988 to 1989, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.[4] From 1996 to 1997, he was a chairman of the mathematics department and from 1997 to 2004 he was the head of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering.[2] He retired in 2014.[2] He died on 1 January 2021 at the age of 73.[1]
Bushnell has advised doctoral students including Graham Everest.[3]
Research
editBushnell's research included "major contributions to the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups and the study of the local Langlands correspondence."[1]
Awards
editIn 1994, Bushnell was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (Smooth representations of p-adic groups: the role of compact open subgroups).[2]
In 1995, Bushnell was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize.[2] In 2002, he became a Fellow of King's College London.[2] He was inaugurated in the 2013 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[2][5]
Selected publications
edit- With Albrecht Fröhlich, Gauss sums and p-adic division algebras, lecture notes in mathematics, vol. 987, Springer Verlag 1983
- With Guy Henniart, The local Langlands conjecture for GL(2), Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-31486-5 (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 335)
- With Philip Kutzko, The admissible dual of GL(N) via compact open subgroups, Annals of Mathematical Studies 129, Princeton University Press 1993
References
edit- ^ a b c "Colin J. Bushnell (1947-2021)". American Mathematical Society. 18 February 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "In memory of Colin Bushnell". King's College London. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ a b Colin J. Bushnell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Colin J. Bushnell". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 23 November 2013.