Matthew Emerton

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Matthew James Emerton (born 9 November 1971) is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research is in number theory, especially automorphic forms. He earned a B.S. (honors) from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998, supervised by Barry Mazur; his thesis was "2-Adic Modular Forms of Minimal Slope." After postdoctoral positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago, he joined Northwestern University in 2001 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 2005 and a full professor in 2008, and moved to the University of Chicago in 2011. Emerton introduced completed cohomology, a tool used in studying p-adic automorphic forms. Building on Colmez’s work on the p-adic Langlands program, he posted a preprint in 2011 proving many cases of the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture. He was a Sloan Fellow in 1997 and was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, speaking on "Completed cohomology and the p-adic Langlands program." He is known for his contributions to math online communities, including MathOverflow, where he shares clear explanations about Langlands, algebraic geometry, and number theory and offers helpful comments on blogs.