- Diana Shelstad
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Diana Shelstad Nationality Australian Fields Mathematics Institutions Rutgers–Newark Alma mater Yale University Doctoral advisor Robert Langlands Doctoral students Dmitry Rubanovich Known for Coconjecturing the fundamental lemma Diana Frost Shelstad is a mathematician known for her work in automorphic forms. She is a professor at Rutgers–Newark. She earned her doctorate at Yale University in 1974 studying real reductive algebraic groups.
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Research
Shelstad has been a key player in the development of the theory of endoscopy which is part of Langlands program. She co-conjectured the fundamental lemma with Robert Langlands in 1984. After over 20 years, this conjecture was solved by Ngô Bảo Châu in 2009, thus opening up a wealth of consequences.
In 1999, Shelstad developed a theory of twisted endoscopy with Robert Kottwitz. In 2008–9 she completed work on tempered endoscopy.
Important talks
On August 4, 2008, Shelstad spoke at the Banff International Research Station. The talk was recorded and may be viewed at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banff-international-research/id307566214.
Selected papers
- Shelstad, D. Characters and inner forms of a quasi-split group over $R$. Compositio Math. 39 (1979), no. 1, 11–45.
- Langlands, R.; Shelstad, D. On principal values on p-adic manifolds. Lie group representations, II (College Park, Md., 1982/1983), 250–279, Lecture Notes in Math., 1041, Springer, Berlin, 1984.
- Kottwitz, R. and D. Shelstad Foundations of Twisted Endoscopy, Asterisque, vol. 255, 1999
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Categories:- Living people
- Australian mathematicians
- Yale University alumni
- Rutgers University faculty
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 21st-century mathematicians
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