Number theory people at MIT

Faculty, Postdocs, and Affiliates

• Zarathustra Brady
• Beth Malmskog (visiting March-April 2018)
• Bjorn Poonen
• Ananth Shankar
• Glenn Stevens (visiting January 15 to March 15, 2018)
• Andrew Sutherland
• Junho Peter Whang (arriving in Fall 2018)
• Zhiwei Yun (representation theory, algebraic geometry, and number theory; arriving in Spring 2018)
• Wei Zhang

• Kenneth Ascher (algebraic geometry)
• Roman Bezrukavnikov (algebraic geometry and representation theory)
• Melody Chan (combinatorial algebraic geometry, visiting Spring 2018)
• Henry Cohn
• Julee Kim (representations of p-adic groups)
• Alina Marian (algebraic geometry; visiting Fall 2017)
• Davesh Maulik (algebraic geometry)
• Georg Oberdieck (algebraic geometry)
• Aaron Pixton (algebraic geometry)
• Dhruv Ranganathan (algebraic geometry)
• Giulia Saccà (algebraic geometry)
• Gonçalo Tabuada (algebraic topology)
• Chenyang Xu (algebraic geometry, arriving in Fall 2018)
• Yufei Zhao (extremal/probabilistic/additive combinatorics)

Graduate students

• Vishal Arul
• Renee Bell
• Atticus Christensen
• David Corwin
• Campbell Hewett
• Borys Kadets
• Hyuk Jun Kweon
• Soohyun Park
• Nicholas Triantafillou
• Isabel Vogt
• Jingwei Xiao

Recent Ph.D.s awarded

2016

• John Binder, Fields of rationality of cuspidal automorphic representations
• Ruthi Hortsch, Counting elliptic curves of bounded Faltings height
• Padmavathi Srinivasan, Invariants linked to models of curves over discrete valuation rings

2014

• Kęstutis Česnavičius, Selmer groups as flat cohomology groups
• Mario DeFranco, The unramified principal series of p-adic groups: the Bessel Function
• Jennifer Park, Effective Chabauty for symmetric powers of curves

2013

• Gregory Minton, Computer-assisted proofs in geometry and physics

2011

• Jennifer Balakrishnan, Coleman integration for hyperelliptic curves: algorithms and applications
• Catherine Lennon, Arithmetic and analytic properties of finite field hypergeometric functions
• Kaloyan Slavov, The moduli space of hypersurfaces whose singular locus has high dimension
• Fucheng Tan, Families of p-adic Galois representations

2010

• Peter McNamara, Whittaker functions on metaplectic groups
• Sawyer Tabony, Deformations of characters, metaplectic Whittaker functions, and the Yang-Baxter equation

2009

• Chris Davis, The overconvergent de Rham-Witt complex
• Liang Xiao, Nonarchimedean differential modules and ramification theory

2008

• Ruochuan Liu, On the slope filtrations of phi-modules over the Robba ring