BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

P.O. Box 653, Be'er-Sheva 84105, ISRAEL

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Research Group

Eitan Bachmat
PhD: MIT 1994
Main Research Interests: Arakelov theory, Hilbert modular varieties
E-mail: ebachmat@cs.bgu.ac.il

Daniel Berend
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1982
Main Research Interests (in Number Theory): distribution modulo 1 (especially density modulo 1), Diophantine approximations, some classes of Diophantine equations
E-mail: berend@math.bgu.ac.il

Amnon Besser
PhD: Tel Aviv University 1993
Main Research Interests: number theory, arithmetic geometry, p-adic integration, p-adic cohomology, Shimura varieties, automorphic forms, algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory.
E-mail: bessera@math.bgu.ac.il

Ido Efrat
PhD: Tel-Aviv University 1990
Main Research Interests: Galois theory, field arithmetic, structure of canonical Galois groups, valuation theory
E-mail: efrat@math.bgu.ac.il

Nadya Gurevich
PhD: Weizman Institute 2000
Main Research Interests: automorphic forms, representation theory
E-mail: ngur@math.bgu.ac.il

Sa'ar Hersonsky
PhD: University of Illinois at Chicago 1994
Main Research Interests: hyperbolic manifolds
E-mail: saarh@math.bgu.ac.il

Fedor Pakovich
Ph.D: Institut Fourier (Grenoble University) 1997
Main Research Interests (in Number Theory): Dessins d'enfants
E-mail: pakovich@math.bgu.ac.il

Ronen Peretz
PhD: Technion 1989
Main Research Interests (in Algebraic Geometry): polynomial mappings, the Jacobian conjecture
E-mail: ronenp@math.bgu.ac.il

Victor Vinnikov
PhD: Ben-Gurion University, 1988
Main Research interests (in Algebraic Geometry): Jacobian varieties, theta functions, vector bundles on compact Riemann surfaces
E-mail: vinnikov@math.bgu.ac.il

Barak Weiss
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998
Main Research Interests: dynamics of Lie group actions on parameter subspaces, applications to Diophantine approximation
E-mail: barakw@math.bgu.ac.il

Amnon Yekutieli
PhD: MIT 1990
Main Research Interests: algebraic geometry, noncommutative algebra
E-mail: amyekut@math.bgu.ac.il

Post-Doctoral fellows

Eliot Brenner
PhD: Yale University 2005
Main Research Interests: Automorphic forms on higher rank symmetic spaces, applications to algebraic geometry
E-mail: ebrenner@cs.bgu.ac.il

Frederick Leitner
PhD: University Of Arizona, 2005
Main Research Interests: Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, Formal Groups in Positive Characteristic
E-mail: litlfred@ibiblio.org

Owen Patashnick
PhD: University of Chicago 2000
Main Research Interests: arithmetic geometry, algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory, polylogarithms, motives
E-mail: powen@math.bgu.ac.il

Akira Sano
PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2004
Main Research Interests: Algebraic Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces
E-mail: sano@math.bgu.ac.il

Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Cooperation with mathematical institutes outside Israel (partial list):

Brandeis University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Courant Institute, IHES, Limburgs University, McGill University, MIT, Ohio State University, Paris-Sud, Purdue University, Rice University, RIMS (Kyoto), SUNY Stony Brook, Tokyo Gakugei, UC San Diego, University of Durham, Universitaet Regensburg, University of Lyon-1, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of Muenster, University of Rennes, University of Torino, University of Washington, Virginia Tech, Yale University

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