Kannan Soundararajan | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Kannan Soundararajan, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics Research Center (MRC) at Stanford University. Soundararajan received his BS degree from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D, supervised by Peter Sarnak, from Princeton University in 1998. After postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, before moving to Stanford University in 2006. His main research interests lie in number theory, and in particular in multiplicative number theory and L-functions, but he is broadly interested in many problems in number theory, combinatorics, probability and analysis

Soundararajan has received the Salem Prize, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, the Ostrowski Prize, the Infosys Prize, and a Simons Investigator Award. He gave an invited lecture at the ICM in 2010.

A fundamental problem in the area of quantum chaos is to understand the distribution of high eigenvalue eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on certain Riemannian manifolds. A particular case which is of interest to number theorists concerns hyperbolic...