Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

and number theory. He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.

Education

Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. In 1987, he received his

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, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled ''The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves''.

Academic career

Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona. In 2009, he moved to the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics. He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017. Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the '' Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux''.

References

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