RTG in Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, and Number Theory

Funded by NSF Research Training Group grant DMS-1502651

Faculty

• PIs

  • Elham Izadi (lead PI)
  • Kiran S. Kedlaya
  • James McKernan
  • Cristian D. Popescu
  • Efim Zelmanov

• Senior Personnel

  • Alina Bucur
  • Dragos Oprea
  • Daniel Rogalski
  • Alireza Salehi Golsefidy
  • Claus Sorensen

• Other Affiliated Faculty

  • Benedict Gross
  • Daniel Kane
  • Amir Mohammadi
  • Aaron Pollack (2020-present)
  • Steven Sam (2018-present)
  • Ila Varma (2018-2020)

Postdocs

• RTG Postdocs

  • Anne Carter (2015-2018)
  • Ed Dewey (2016-2019)
  • Henry J. Tucker (2016-2019)
  • David Ben-Ezra (2017-2020)
  • Joseph Ferrara (2018-2020)
  • Kristin DeVleming (2018-2021)
  • Zach Higgins (2021-2022)

• Other Postdocs

  • Nikolay Buskin (SEW Assistant Professor, 2016-2019)
  • Vladislav Petkov (lecturer, 2017-2018)
  • David Stapleton (grant-funded, 2017-2021)
  • Nathan Green (SEW Assistant Professor, 2018-2021)
  • Michail Savvas (SEW Assistant Professor, 2018-2021)
  • Nattalie Tamam (SEW Assistant Professor, 2018-2021)
  • Brandon Alberts (SEW Assistant Professor, 2020-2022)
  • Piper H (grant-funded, fall 2020)
  • James Upton (Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2023)
  • Anne Carter (grant-funded, 2021-2022)
  • Angus Chung (SEW Assistant Professor, 2021-2024)
  • Be'eri Greenfeld (SEW Assistant Professor, 2021-2024)
  • Reuven Hodges (SEW Assistant Professor, 2021-2024)
  • Aranya Lahiri (SEW Assistant Professor, 2021-2024)
  • Ming Zhang (SEW Assistant Professor, 2021-2024)
  • Anthony Sanchez (NSF/Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024)
  • Jon Aycock (SEW Assistant Professor, 2022-2025)
  • Shishir Agrawal (SEW Assistant Professor, 2022-2025)
  • Christial Klevdal (SEW Assistant Professor, 2022-2025)
  • Amit Ophir (SEW Assistant Professor, 2022-2025)

Activities

• RTG Colloquia

• GradSWANTAG

• Algebra Seminar (old link)

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar

• Number Theory Seminar

• Graduate directed reading for undergraduates

• Graduate learning seminars

• Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry (2024)

• Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar (2022)

• Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar (2020)

• Southern California Number Theory Day (2020)

• Complex Algebraic Geometry (2019)

• Southern California Number Theory Day (2018)

• Southern California Number Theory Day (2017)

• Complex Algebraic Geometry Conference (2016)

Students (completed)

• Shaunak Das (2016, Kedlaya)
• Corey Stone (2016, Popescu)
• Susan Elle (2016, Rogalski)
• Robert Won (2016, Rogalski)
• Daniel Smith (2017, McKernan)
• Calum Spicer (2017, McKernan)
• Perry Strahl (2017, Oprea)
• Robert Snellman (2017, Popescu)
• Stephan Weispfennig (2018, Rogalski)
• Roman Kitsela (2018, Sorensen)
• Zonglin Jiang (2019, Kedlaya)
• Taylor Mcadam (2019, Mohammadi)
• Francois Thilmany (2019, Salehi Golsefidy)
• Jonathan Conder (2019, Izadi)
• Peter Wear (2020, Kedlaya)
• Iacopo Brivio (2020, McKernan)
• Justin Lacini (2020, McKernan)
• Zihao Li (2020, McKernan)
• Woonam Lim (2020, Oprea)
• Xin Tong (2021, Kedlaya)
• Zach Higgins (2021, Popescu)
• Mingjie Chen (2022, Kedlaya)
• Samir Canning (2022, Izadi)
• Daniel Kongsgaard (2022, Sorensen)
• Thomas Grubb (2022, Kedlaya)
• Rusiru Gambheera Arachchige (2023, Popescu)
• Jun Bo Lau (2023, Kedlaya)
• Shubham Sinha (2023, Oprea)