Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.[1] He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.[2]

Education

Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University.[3] In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.[4]

Academic career

Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.[5] In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona.[6] In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics.[7] He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017.[2]

Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.[8][3]

References

  1. ↑ "MR: Ulmer, Douglas L. – 175900". www.ams.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Douglas L. Ulmer". math.arizona.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Douglas Ulmer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Miller, Haynes. "Instructors at MIT from 1949". Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry: About the Southwest Center". swc.math.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  7. ↑ Mariano, Willoughby (2011-02-09). "Sen. Isakson says counting $1 trillion takes thousands of years". PolitiFact. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  8. ↑ "Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux". jtnb.math.u-bordeaux.fr. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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