Algebra and Number Theory Faculty

Faculty with Research Interests in Algebra and Number Theory

Research Faculty:

  • Efraim Armendariz (efraim@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include the general structure theory of noncommucative rings and their modules, with an emphasis on rings satisfying a polynomial identity and von Neumann regular rings; radical properties and torsion theories for ring and module categories. Professional interests include issues in mathematics education and reform mechanisms which lead to improved access for groups not traditionally represented in the mathematical sciences.
  • Frank Gerth III (gerth@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include Algebraic Number Theory, including class numbers, class groups, discriminants, class field theory, density theorems, Iwasawa theory.
  • Sean M. Keel (keel@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include Algebraic Geometry, particularly Mori's program, GIT, moduli problems, and intersection theory.
  • Stephen McAdam (mcadam@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include commutative rings. His future research plans are to continue developing the theory of asymptotic and essential prime divisors and their applications, and to study projective equivalence.
  • Alan W. Reid (areid@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include low-dimensional topology and discrete groups. He is particularly interested in the geometry and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and properties of their fundamental groups. He is also interested in connections between hyperbolic 3-manifolds and number theory..
  • David Saltman (saltman@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include Brauer group theory and division algebras, with an emphasis on invariant theory of groups acting on fields, rationality of invariant fields, the center of the generic division algebra, and division algebras over p-adic curves and their geometry.
  • John Tate (tate@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include Algebraic Number Theory (local and global fields), Class Field Theory, Galois cohomology, Galois representations, L-functions and their special values, modular forms, elliptic curves and abelian varieties.
  • Jeffrey Vaaler (vaaler@math.utexas.edu): Research interests include Analytic Number Theory, Diophantine approximation and the geometry of numbers in local and global fields, Diophantine inequalities, polynomials, effective measures of irrationality and transcendence, applications of Fourier analysis in number theory, inequalities and extremal problems.
  • Felipe Voloch (): Research interests include arithmetic of function fields. Diophantine geometry over function fields. Geometry of algebraic curves. Arithmetic analogues of geometric methods. Modular forms, elliptic curves and abelian varieties. Applications to coding theory.

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