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Past Years Seminars Conferences Past Members, Postdocs, and Visitors Past Students

Past Years 2013-2014:

PIMS Distinguished Visitor Prof. Minhyong Kim (University of Oxford)
Visiting from May 11 to May 15, 2014.

Alberta Number Theory Days 2014 - VIth meeting
April 19-20, 2014, BIRS, Banff.
Plenary speakers (to be confirmed):
Jennifer Balakrishnan (Oxford)
Nils Bruin (SFU)
Manish Patnaik (Edmonton)
Renate Scheidler (Calgary)
Kate Stange (University of Colorado)
Organizers: Clifton Cunningham (U. of C.), Habiba Kadiri (U. of L.), Soroosh Yazdani (U. of L.).
Contact: Habiba Kadiri (habiba.kadiri@uleth.ca)

Visitor Dr. Daniel Fiorilli (University of Michigan)
Visiting from March 3rd to Mrch 7, 2014, office D536.

Mon. Mar. 3, noon to 12:50pm in B650	PIMS Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Nuclear Physics and Number Theory
Mon. Mar. 3, 2-2:50pm in B650	A conditional determination of the average rank of elliptic curves

PIMS Distinguished Visitor Prof. Olivier Ramaré (CNRS/Université de Lille 1)
Visiting from February 21 to March 6, office D518.

Mon. Feb. 24, noon to 12:50pm in B650	PIMS Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Bilinear forms on prime numbers
Mon. Feb. 24, 2 to 2:50pm in D633	A practical example of using a bilinear decomposition on the Moebius function
Tues. Feb. 25, 9:25 to 10:40am in D632	Large values of Dirichlet polynomials: an introduction
Fri. Feb. 28, noon to 12:50 in D631	PIMS Lethbridge Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Extremal problems of large primes in small intervalls
Tues. Mar. 4, 9:25 to 10:40am in L114	Log-free zero-density estimates (1/2)
Tues. Mar. 4, 10:50 to 12:05 in L114	Log-free zero-density estimates (2/2)
Thur. Mar. 6, 9:25 to 10:40am in D632	A comparison of Perron's formula and smoothing

Elliptic curves and modular forms seminar (Fall 2013)
Program: going through Silverman's "Advanced Topics in Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" book with graduate students.
Every Wednesday, at 11am, usually in B543, contact: Soroosh Yazdani.

Seminar on Zhang's theorem on bounded gaps between primes (Fall 2013)
Every Friday, at noon, usually in C674, contact: Nathan Ng.

Number Theory & Combinatorics Seminar	Every semester since Fall 2007. Mondays 12:00-12:50 PM in B660. Fall 2011 Fall 2010 Spring 2010 - Fall 2009 Spring 2009 - Fall 2008 Spring 2008 - Fall 2007
Student Seminars:	Junior Number Theory Seminar 2013-2014 Number Theory Study Seminars - Summer 2011, Undergraduate lectures in Analytic Number Theory - Summer 2010, Undergraduate lectures in Analytic Number Theory - Summer 2009, Undergraduate lectures in Analytic Number Theory - Summer 2008.
PIMS West End Number Theory Seminar (WENTS)	2009-2010

Alberta Number Theory Days	May 10-12, 2013, BIRS, Banff. Organizers: Brandon Fodden (U. of Lethbridge), David Roe (U. of Calgary).
Canadian Number Theory Association XIIth meeting	June 17-22, 2012, University of Lethbridge. Organizers: Amir Akbary, Habiba Kadiri, Nathan Ng, Soroosh Yazdani (all U of L), Michael Bennett (UBC), Nils Bruin (SFU), Matthew Greenberg (Calgary), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC).
CRG conference Analytic Aspects of L-functions and Applications to Number Theory	May 29-June 3, 2011 University of Calgary Organizers: Amir Akbary (UofL), Matthew Greenberg (UofC), Greg Martin (UBC).
Alberta Number Theory Days	IV. Banff June 17-June 19, 2011. org: Amir Akbary, Brandon Fodden(all UofL). III. Banff, April 30--May 2, 2010. org: Matthew Greenberg (UofC), Paul Buckingham (UofA). II. Calgary, April 30, 2009. org: Matthew Greenberg, Renate Scheidler, Andrew Shallue (all UofC). I. Lethbridge, May 07, 2008. org: Amir Akbary, Dragos Ghioca, Habiba Kadiri, Nathan Ng (all UofL).

Past Members/Postdocs	Areas of Expertise	Current Position
Adam Felix PIMS Postdoc: January 2013 - December 2014 Ph.D., Queens, 2011.	Analytic number theory, sieve theory, primes in arithmetic progression, Artin's primitive root conjecture, elliptic curves, algebraic number theory.	Since Jan. 2015, Postdoc at KTH, Stockholm.
Soroosh Yazdani Assistant Professor (2011-2014) Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley (US), 2007.	Algebraic Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Algorithmic Number Theory, p-adic Representation Theory	Since Fall 2014 at Google Inc. and University of Waterloo.
Brandon Fodden Academic Assistant: 2009 - 2013 postdoc: July 2007 - 2009 Ph.D., Queen's, 2007.	Analytic and algebraic number theory, Hilbert's 10th problem, logic.	Since Fall 2013: Instructor Carleton University, Ottawa.
Dragos Ghioca Assistant Professor, July 2007 - June 2010 Ph.D., U. of California (Berkeley), 2005.	Arithmetic geometry, polynomial dynamics, geometric model theory.	Since Fall 2010: Associate Professor at UBC, Vancouver.
Tim Trudgian postdoc: July 2010 - June 2012 Ph.D., Oxford (UK), 2010.	Analytic number theory, Riemann zeta-function and its argument.	Currently ARC Fellow Australian National University, Canberra.
Fabien Pazuki Postdoc - August 2009 Ph.D., U. of Bordeaux 1 (France), 2008.	Diophantine geometry, heights, abelian varieties, rational points, elliptic curves.	Maitre de Conference U. of Bordeaux I, France

Past Graduate Students	Thesis	After graduation
Manoj Kumar	Master's student (Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2014) Advisors: Amir Akbary, Soroosh Yazdani	(as of Sept. 2015) PhD student in University of Waterloo.
Adela Gherga	PhD student (Sept. 2013 - transfered to UBC in Sept. 2014) Advisor:Soroosh Yazdani	(as of Sept. 2014) PhD student in UBC, Vancouver.
Allysa Lumley	MSc August 2014 Thesis: Explicit Results on Primes Advisors: Habiba Kadiri, Nathan Ng	(as of Sept. 2014) Instructor and Research Assistant, University of Lethbridge
Jeff Bleaney	MSc April 2014 Thesis: On some properties of Elliptic Nets Advisors: Amir Akbary, Soroosh Yazdani	(as of Sept. 2014) Instructor and Research Assistant, University of Lethbridge
Majid Shahabi	MSc August 2012 Thesis: The distribution of the classical error terms of prime number theory. Advisors: Amir Akbary, Nathan Ng	(as of Sept. 2013) PhD student, U. of Calgary.
Fataneh Esteki	MSc August 2012 Thesis: Approximations for some functions of primes. Advisors: Amir Akbary, Habiba Kadiri	(as of Sept. 20130 MSc student, U. of Calgary.
Shahab Shahabi	MSc 2003 Thesis: On non vanishing of certain L-functions Advisor: Amir Akbary	Ph.D 2008, McGill Advisor: Henri Darmon.

Years	Undergraduate Summer Research Students (wall of pictures)
2010	Laura Faber (Kadiri) Chebyshev bounds for psi(x), Chinook Research Summer Award. Yang Li (Akbary, Ng) Biases in the Size of Arithmetic Functions and the Mertens Conjecture, Chinook Research Summer Award. Keylan Scholten (Akbary, Ng) Artin prime producing polynomials, NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.
2009	Laura Faber (Kadiri, Ng) Explicit bounds for the n-th prime number, Chinook Research Summer Award. Kyle Hambrook (Akbary) Explicit lower bounds for the number of primes p for which p + a has a large prime divisor, NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Allysa Lumley (Kadiri) Explicit bounds for some prime counting functions, Chinook Research Summer Award. Mark Thom (Ng) The Riemann zeta function and divisor functions, NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.
2008	Kyle Hambrook (Akbary) An effective variant of the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem, Chinook Student Research Award. Allysa Lumley (Kadiri) Chinook Research Summer Award. Mark Thom (Ng) NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.