I am currently a research fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. I've previously been a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, a postdoctoral member of MSRI, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. Before all that, I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where I got my Ph.D. (in 2009) under the supervision of Jeffrey Lagarias. I work primarily in number theory, and I especially enjoy analytic number theory and experimentation.
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Papers:
In reverse chronological order...
- (with Alyson Deines, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Benjamin LeVeque, R. Andrew Ohana, Ashwath Rabindranath, Paul Sharaba, and William Stein) A database of of elliptic curves over $\Q(\sqrt 5)$ - First report.
- Conditionally bounding analytic ranks of elliptic curves.
- (with Leo Goldmakher) The distribution of the maximum of character sums.
- (with Emanuel Carneiro, Kevin Hughes, and Lillian Pierce) On a discrete version of Tanaka's theorem for maximal functions. Proceedings of the AMS, to appear
- (with Jason Bell) Bounded step functions and factorial ratio sequences. International Journal of Number Theory 5 (2009), no. 8, 1419--1431.
- Factorial ratios, hypergeometric series, and a family of step functions. Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2) 79 (2009), no. 2, 422--444.
Some things I am currently working on:
Computations of $\zeta(s)$ at large height (with Ghaith Hiary)
Gaps in zeros of L-functions
The distribution of values of character sums (with Leo Goldmakher)
Some courses I've taught:
Math 116, Winter 2008, Section 13
Math 115, Fall 2007, Section 38