I am a professor of mathematics at Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University.
Starting December 2022, I will be on leave from University of Oregon, where I have been a faculty member since 2012.
Current and Recent Research Grants:
Problems in the Geometry of Numbers and Diophantine Analysis, NSF award number DMS-2001281 (2020-2023)
Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians (2019-2024)
Modern Approaches for Classical Diophantine Problems, NSF award number DMS-1601837 (2016-2019)
EDUCATION:
The University of British Columbia, Ph.D in Mathematics (2008)
Dissertation: Thue Equations and Related Topics
Advisor: Professor Michael Bennett
Simon Fraser University, M.Sc. in Mathematics (2004)
Dissertation: Characterizing Cyclotomic Littlewood Polynomials
Advisor: Professor Stephen Choi
Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc in Mathematics (2002)
Postdoctoral Positions:
Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal (2011-2012), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn(2009-2011), and briefly at Queen’s University, Kingston (2008).
Partly supported by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Visiting Positions:
Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science, Toronto, Canada. (2008 and 2017)
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (as Leibniz Fellow), Oberwolfach, Germany. (2010-2012)
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. (2010 and 2013)
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. (2009-2011 and 2014 and 2018-2019)
FIM, Institute for Mathematical research, Zürich, Switzerland. (2018 and 2019)
Mathematics Department, Cornell University (as Michler Fellow). (Fall Semester 2021)
Current Ph.D Students:
Elisa Bellah, Ph.D 2022 ( Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University starting Fall 2022)
Jaxon Shumaker
Past Graduate Students:
Christophe Dethier, Ph.D 2020
Leila Vaden, M.Sc 2017
Undergraduate Research Students:
Riley Burton. Research Project: Quadratic Forms and Class Numbers, Summer 2021.
Montana Janssen and Ariel Rosenfield, Research Project: Covering Systems of Integers, Summer 2018.
Ben Lain, Research Project: Skolem’s method for solving Diophantine equations, Summer 2018.