Professor of Mathematics and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto
Stephen Kudla received his doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook in 1975, with Ph.D. advisor Michio Kuga. After spending a year as a member at the IAS in Princeton, he joined the mathematics department at the University of Maryland, College Park in the fall of 1975. He moved to Toronto in 2006. He was awarded Sloan Fellowship in 1981 and was an invited speaker at the ICM in Beijing in 2002. He was awarded the Max-Planck Research Prize in 2000 and the Jeffrey-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2009. He has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics since 2004 and has (co-) organized many research programs, including 4 Oberwolfach meetings, a thematic program at the Fields Institute in the fall of 2008, and a session at the joint Canada-France Congress on Mathematics in Montreal in the summer of 2008. His research interests include classical modular forms, automorphic representations, the theta correspondence, L-functions, arithmetic geometry and Arakelov theory.