Algebra and Number Theory

Number Theory seminar

Permanent Faculty

Steve Gonek
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The Riemann zeta function, L functions, and the distribution of prime numbers.
Naomi Jochnowitz
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Algebraic number theory, modular forms, p-adic modular forms
Saul Lubkin
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Algebraic geometry, homological algebra; Construction of algebraic-topological like invariants in algebraic geometry.
Thomas Tucker
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Arithmetic geometry, diophantine equations, algebraic dynamics

Postdoctoral Faculty

C. Douglas Haessig
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Zeta functions of algebraic varieties over finite fields, p-adic analysis.
Andrew Ledoan
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Sequences, prime numbers, and L-functions.
Nick Rogers
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Computational number theory and arithmetic geometry, elliptic curves over global fields.

Current Graduate Students

Joel Dreibelbis
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Cristin Kenney
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Stephen Lester
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Kalyani Madhu
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Adam Towsley
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Partial List of Past Graduate Students in Algebra and Number Theory and their Current Position

Melvyn Nathanson (Segal) (Lehman College (CUNY), New York, New York )
Georges Grinstein (Segal) (University of Massachussets, Lowell )
Mauriso Alves da Silva (Segal) (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Goro Kato (1979, Lubkin) (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
Thomas Shemanske (1979, Pizer) (Dartmouth College)
Richard Sot (1980, Lubkin) (No information available)
Michael Miller (1984, Segal) (LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York)
Shepley L. Ross II (1985, Pizer) (Bates College)
Jinsung Yoo (1987, Lubkin) (No information available)
Xiaoying Dong (1990, Segal) (Duke University)
Sungtae Jun (1991, Pizer) (Kunkuk University, Korea)
Songjie Ren (1994, Jochnowitz) (No information available)
Cheri L. Boyd (1995, Pizer) (Nazareth College, Rochester, New York)
Cristian Cobeli (1997, Gonek) (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy)
Jose Gagero (1997, Gonek) (Catholic University, Santiago Chile)
Tiantang Peng (1999, Lubkin) (United Health Group, Minneapolis)
Vivek Sondhi (2000, Gonek) (Commerzbank Securities, London)
Alexander Kasiukov (2001, Lubkin) (Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, New York)
Micah Milinovich (2008, Gonek) (University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS)
Vijay Sookdeo (2009, Tucker) Assist. Prof. at Catholic University, Baltimore, MD
Justin Sukiennik (2009, Tucker) Visiting Assist. Prof, Univ. of Minneapolis

Recent Graduate Courses

Fall 2009 MTH 568: Topics in Number Theory (by Haessig)
Fall 2008 MTH 538: Topics in Algebraic Geometry (by Tucker)
Fall 2007 MTH 531: Topics in Algebraic Number theory (by Tucker)
MTH 535: Commutative Algebra (by Jochnowitz)
Spring 2007 MTH 537: Homology (by Lubkin)
Spring 2006 MTH 518: Topics in Random Matrix Theory (by Gioev)
MTH 535: Commutative Algebra (by Jochnowitz)
MTH 538: Algebraic Geometry (by Tucker)
Spring 2005 MTH 569 Topics in Analytic Number Theory (Instructor: Gonek)
Fall 2004 MTH 531 Intro. to Algebraic Number Theory (Instructor: Tucker)
Spring 2004 MTH 538 Algebraic Geometry (Instructor: Lubkin)
Fall 2003 MTH 535 Commutative Algebra (Instructor: Jochnowitz)

Number Theory Links

Number Theory Web
Number Theory LISTSERV
The preprint ArXiv, Number Theory
Number Theory Centers
Lecture Notes from the 2006 Rochester Summer School on Number Theory and Random Matrices