Karl Rubin

Karl Rubin
Born	(1956-01-27) January 27, 1956 Urbana, Illinois
Nationality	United States
Institutions	Princeton University Ohio State University Columbia University Stanford University University of California, Irvine
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Andrew Wiles
Doctoral students	Cristian Dumitru Popescu
Notable awards	Cole Prize (1992)

Karl Rubin (born January 27, 1956) is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician (1986) to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite Tate-Shafarevich groups. It is widely believed that these groups are always finite.

Rubin graduated from Princeton University in 1976, and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. His thesis advisor was Andrew Wiles. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1974, and a Sloan Research Fellow in 1985. In 1988 he received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, and in 1992 won the American Mathematical Society Cole Prize in number theory. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

External links

• UCI press release on Rubin's appointment to Edward and Vivian Thorp Chair in Mathematics
• Rubin's Home page
• Rubin's talk in 1993 about elliptic curves at MSRI