Michael Harris

Michael Harris is Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University; before that he held positions at Brandeis University and Université Paris-Diderot. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University, under the direction of Barry Mazur. He has organized or co-organized more than 20 conferences, workshops, and special programs in his field of number theory. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Bethlehem University in Palestine and a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar at the Steklov Institute in Moscow.  His book Mathematics without Apologies won the 2016 PROSE award in Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers, and he currently has a Substack newsletter entitled “Silicon Reckoner.”  He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, the Academia Europaea, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. For his contributions to the Langlands program he obtained the Grand Prix Sophie Germain de l’Académie des Sciences in 2006; in 2007 he shared the Clay Research Award with Richard Taylor.