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Graduate Students

  • Allysa Lumley, MSc 2014, Primes in Arithmetic Progressions.
    MSc student 2012-2014
    Thesis: Explicit results on primes
    Since September 2015: PhD candidate at York University.

  • Fataneh Esteki
    MSc student 2010-2012
    (Co-supervision with Amir Akbary)
    Thesis: Approximations for some functions of primes
    In September 2014: graduate student at University of Hawaii, Manoa, US.



  • Undergraduate Students

    Summer 2018:
    Calculating various prime counting functions up to high values
    Vincent Cote (NSERC USRA), Julius Moore (NSERC USRA)
    Adapting the work of Bennett Martin et al to finding new bounds for Mertens sums
    Sam Broadbent (NSERC USRA)

    Spring 2018:
    New bounds for Mertens sums
    Kirsten Wilk

    Summer 2017:
    Sharper bounds for Chebyshev functions psi(x) and theta(x)
    Sam Broadbent (NSERC USRA), Noah Christensen, Kirsten Wilk (NSERC USRA)
    Survey of Results comparable to or improving upon those given in Rosser and Schoenfeld's
    Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers}, Illinois. J. Math. 6 (1962), 64--94.

    Sam Broadbent (NSERC USRA), Kirsten Wilk (NSERC USRA)

    Summer and Fall 2010:
    Laura Faber
    Chebyshev bounds for Ψ(x).
    Chinook Research Summer Award
    Article: New bounds for psi(x), Math. Comp. 84 (2015), no. 293, 1339--1357.

    Summer 2009:
  • Laura Faber
    (Co-supervision with Nathan Ng)
    Explicit bounds for the n-th prime number.
    Chinook Research Summer Award

  • Allysa Lumley
    Explicit bounds for some prime counting functions
    Chinook Research Summer Award


  • Summer 2008:
    Allysa Lumley
    Chinook Research Summer Award


    Postdoctoral Students


    Alia Hamieh (2015-2017)
    PhD 2013, UBC.
    In July 2017: Assistant Professor, UNBC.
    Timothy Trudgian (2010-2012)
    PhD 2010, Oxford, UK.
    Since July 2012: ARC Early Career Research Fellow at the ANU (Australian nattional University) College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Canberra, Australia.

    Brandon Fodden (2009-2010)
    PhD 2007, Queen's.
    Since September 2013: Instructor at Carleton University, Ottawa.



    Past students and postdocs in our number theory group.

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