Talk:Kari Vilonen

Kari Vilonen - Declaration of potential conflict of interest
I work for The University of Melbourne. I added suggested edits to an article about Kari Vilonen, who is also a faculty member at The University of Melbourne. I am not being paid to write about him.

Explanation of issue
Adding a info box.

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✔️  Seagull123  Φ  16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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Under Education, please delete: Vilonen participated as a student in the International Mathematical Olympiad and received in 1973/74 the bronze medal.

Explanation of issue
A bronze medal in 1973 seems irrelevant, given the other things that he has done.

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✅ - also appears unsourced  Seagull123  Φ  16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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Under Career, please change: He is a professor at Northwestern University[2] since 2000 ... To: He was a professor at Northwestern University from 2000 - 2017 ...

Explanation of issue
He finished at Northwestern in 2017.

References supporting change
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/kari-vilonen/files/2020/06/Short_Vilonen_CV_2020.pdf

currently, there is no mention of the dates he worked at Northwestern University  Seagull123  Φ  16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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At the end of Career, please add: In 2015, he accepted a position as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Explanation of issue
He started at UniMelb in 2015, and has been here ever since.

References supporting change
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/kari-vilonen/files/2020/06/Short_Vilonen_CV_2020.pdf https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/554939-kari-vilonen

✔️  Seagull123  Φ  16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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In Career, please change: With Dennis Gaitsgory and Edward Frenkel he proved the geometrical Langlands conjecture for curves over finite fields.

To read: In 2002, with Dennis Gaitsgory and Edward Frenkel he published "On the geometric Langlands conjecture", which proved the geometrical Langlands conjecture for curves over finite fields.

Explanation of issue
Trying to give this a bit more context, and fit it in with his overall career trajectory.

References supporting change
doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00388-5

✅ <b style="background:#304747;color:#BED6D6"> Seagull123 </b><b style="color:#304747"> Φ </b> 16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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In Career, please add:

In 2004, Vilonen, Mark Goresky, Dennis Gaitsgory and Edward Frenkel were awarded a multimillion dollar grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work on a project aimed at establishing links between the Langlands program and dualities in quantum field theory. Later, Frenkel wrote, "We felt like we were in uncharted territory: no mathematicians we knew had ever received grants of this magnitude before." The funds were used to coordinate the work of dozens of mathematicians with the goal of making a concerted effort in a significant area of research.

Explanation of issue
Significant grant that laid the foundation for a great deal of work in the area.

References supporting change
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/frenkel-love-math

✅ <b style="background:#304747;color:#BED6D6"> Seagull123 </b><b style="color:#304747"> Φ </b> 16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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In Career, please add:

In 2007, with Ivan Mirković, he published "Geometric Langlands duality and representations of algebraic groups over commutative rings", which proved the geometric Satake equivalence, a geometric version of the Satake isomorphism.

Explanation of issue
Adding in this proof, which is already listed on the Satake isomorphism page.

References supporting change
doi:10.4007/annals.2007.166.95

✅ <b style="background:#304747;color:#BED6D6"> Seagull123 </b><b style="color:#304747"> Φ </b> 16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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Under Awards and keynote addresses, please add:

In 2013, Vilonen received a Humboldt Prize. In 2014, he was awarded a Simons Fellowship from the Simons Foundation.

In 2020, the Australian Research Council awarded Vilonen an Australian Laureate Fellowship, their highest award to an individual. This five year grant will allow him to address deep longstanding questions about real groups, algebraic objects which describe the basic symmetries occurring in nature.

Explanation of the issue
Adding significant awards, including his recently announced Laureate Fellowship.

Reference
Humboldt: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main?p_lang=en&p_bereich=PUBL-HFP&p_pattern=&p_humboldt_nation=&p_address_country=&p_address_region=&p_address_city=&p_address_uni=&p_host_country=&p_host_region=&p_host_city=&p_host_uni=&p_fgb1=&p_order_by=F&p_button_search=&p_page=1

Simons: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees

ARC Laureate: https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/funding-announcement-kits/australian-laureate-fellowships-2020/2020-laureate-profile-professor-kari-vilonen

PS: the reference for his 1997/98 Guggenheim Fellowship (listed at the start of this section) is: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kari-vilonen/

Information to be deleted and added
Under Selected publications, please replace (or at least supplement) the list with these publications:

Masaki Kashiwara and Kari Vilonen, Microdifferential systems and the codimension-three conjecture, Annals of Mathematics (2) 180 (2014), 573-620. MR3224719 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24522934

Ivan Mirković and Kari Vilonen, Geometric Langlands duality and representations of algebraic groups over commutative rings, Annals of Mathematics 166 (2007), 95-143. MR2342692 doi:10.4007/annals.2007.166.95

Edward Frenkel, Dennis Gaitsgory and Kari Vilonen, On the geometric Langlands conjecture, Journal of the American Mathematical Society 15 (2002), No. 2, 364-417. MR1887638 doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00388-5

Wilfried Schmid and Kari Vilonen, Characteristic cycles and wave front cycles of representations of reductive groups, Annals of Mathematics 151 (2000), 1071-1118. arXiv. MR1779564 doi:10.2307/121129

Robert MacPherson and Kari Vilonen, Elementary construction of perverse sheaves, Inventiones Mathematicae 84 (1986), No. 2, 403-435. MR0833195 doi:10.1007/BF01388812

Explanation of the issue
Updating and smoothing out some of the irregularities of the publication list, which hasn't been updated since 2011, and which is a bit random.

Reference
N/A - they are their own references.

I will do this in a bit <b style="background:#304747;color:#BED6D6"> Seagull123 </b><b style="color:#304747"> Φ </b> 16:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

✅ <b style="background:#304747;color:#BED6D6"> Seagull123 </b><b style="color:#304747"> Φ </b> 17:02, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

--Jonathan O&#39;Donnell (talk) 13:46, 8 July 2020 (UTC)