Lethbridge's Number Theory Group

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News SPRING 2013:

• Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar
  
• Courses:
MATH 7410 - Algebra Graduate Course (instr: Adam Felix).

People
The group in Lethbridge is part of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group, from 2010-2013.
We are also part of the Alberta Number Theory Research Group.

Current Members	Areas of Expertise	Email (add "@uleth.ca" after the name)
Amir Akbary faculty Ph. D., U. of Toronto, 1997.	L-functions, Reduction mod p of elliptic curves, Polynomials over finite fields.	amir.akbary
Adam Felix postdoc: January 2013 - present Ph.D., Queens, 2011.	Analytic number theory, sieve theory, primes in arithmetic progression, Artin's primitive root conjecture, elliptic curves, algebraic number theory.	adam.felix
Brandon Fodden faculty: July 2009 - present postdoc: July 2007 - 2009 Ph.D., Queen's, 2007.	Analytic and algebraic number theory, Hilbert's 10th problem, logic.	brandon.fodden
Habiba Kadiri faculty Ph.D., U. Lille I (France), 2002.	Analytic number theory, explicit results, zeros of L-functions, prime numbers.	habiba.kadiri
Nathan Ng faculty Ph.D., UBC (Vancouver), 2001.	Analytic and multiplicative number theory, Riemann zeta function, prime numbers.	nathan.ng
Soroosh Yazdani faculty Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley (US), 2007.	Algebraic Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Algorithmic Number Theory, p-adic Representation Theory	soroosh.yazdani

Graduate Students
Farzad Aryan	PhD student Advisor: Nathan Ng
Jeff Bleaney	Master's student Advisors: Amir Akbary, Soroosh Yazdani
Manoj Kumar	Master's student Advisors: Amir Akbary, Soroosh Yazdani
Allysa Lumley	Master's student Advisors: Habiba Kadiri, Nathan Ng

Past Students
Majid Shahabi	MSc 2012 Thesis: The distribution of the classical error terms of prime number theory. Advisors: Amir Akbary, Nathan Ng	Sept. 2012: research assistant, U. of lethbridge.
Fataneh Esteki	MSc 2012 Thesis: Approximations for some functions of primes. Advisors: Amir Akbary, Habiba Kadiri	Sept. 2012: Master's 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.
Undergraduate Summer Research Students 2010: Laura Faber, Yang Li, Keylan Scholten. 2009: Laura Faber, Kyle Hambrook, Allysa Lumley, Mark Thom. 2008: Kyle Hambrook, Allysa Lumley, Mark Thom. 2005: Zachary Friggstad 2004: Sean Alaric 2001, 2002: Reg Sawilla

Past Members	Areas of Expertise	Current Position
Dragos Ghioca Assistant Professor, July 2007 - June 2010 Ph.D., U. of California (Berkeley), 2005.	Arithmetic geometry, polynomial dynamics, geometric model theory.	Associate Professor UBC, Vancouver
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
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.