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323 Van Vleck Hall
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
e-mail: ellenber@math.wisc.edu
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I've been at Wisconsin since the fall of 2005. My field is arithmetic algebraic geometry: my specific interests include rational points on varieties, enumeration of number fields and other arithmetic objects, Galois representations attached to varieties and their fundamental groups, representation stability, the geometry of large data sets, non-abelian Iwasawa theory, pro-p group theory, automorphic forms, stable cohomology of moduli spaces, the complex of curves, Hilbert-Blumenthal abelian varieties, Q-curves, Serre's conjecture, the ABC conjecture, and Diophantine problems related to all of the above. My research here is partially supported by an NSF grant and a Romnes Faculty Fellowship. I am a co-organizer of the Wisconsin number theory seminar. the organizer of the interdisciplinary "Math And..." seminar, and PI on the NSF-RTG "Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory at the University of Wisconsin" grant.
TEACHING:
I am on sabbatical leave for the 2011-12 academic year.
NEW NEWS:
OLD NEWS: Our most recent "Math And..." talk was given by Margaret Wertheim, on March 31, 2011, as the 2011 Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture: 5:30-6:30 pm at the Ebling Symposium Center (Room 1220) in the Microbial Sciences Building. Title: "The Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef Project: Art / Math / Ecology."
The Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference for Graduate Students was held in Madison on October 23-24, 2010.
On April 24-25, 2010, Jean-Luc Thiffeault and I organized a weekend workshop on pseudo-Anosovs with small dilatation, a subject that occupies a very interesting interface between topology, dynamics, and arithmetic.
We hosted Midwest Number Theory Day on November 6, 2009, featuring talks by Joe Rabinoff, Sug-Woo Shin, Kirsten Wickelgren, and Mike Zieve. The following weekend, November 7-8, we hosted the Sixth Midwest Number Theory Conference for Graduate Students.
I wrote a novel called The Grasshopper King, which came out in 2003 from Coffee House Press. I also write the "Do The Math" column in Slate, and have written articles on mathematical topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Seed, and The Believer.
I used to live in Princeton, NJ; a popular feature of my old web page was How to Eat Dinner in Princeton. Warning: this page is accurate only up to August 2005.
My current graduate students: Yongqiang Zhao and Derek Garton. If you are considering joining this learned crew, you should read this page.
My former graduate students:
Barry Mazur's Mathematical Genealogy (no longer updated in light of the Mathematics Genealogy Project)
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