Alina Ioana Bucur is a

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n-born mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at the

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. Bucur's research is in

analytic number theory In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers. It is often said to have begun with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet's 1837 introduction of Dir ...

with an emphasis on arithmetic statistics.

Education and career

After completing her undergraduate studies at the

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in 2001, she pursued her graduate studies at

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, where she received her Ph.D. in 2006; her dissertation was supervised by Jeffrey Ezra Hoffstein.. After completion of her degree, Bucur was a member of the School of Mathematics at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

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from 2006 to 2007 and 2009–2010 and a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

from 2006 to 2009. She came to the University of California, San Diego, in 2009 as an assistant professor and was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in 2016. Bucur returned to the Institute for Advanced Study as a von Neumann Fellow of the School of Mathematics from 2018 to 2019. Bucur has been involved in Women in Numbers (WIN) Network, a professional network for women with research interests in

number theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...

, since its inception. She serves on the WIN Steering Committee. and co-organized Women in Numbers Europe (2013), the European Women in Mathematics Summer School (2014), and the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

Workshop on Women in Number Theory (2017). Bucur has been an active member of the

(AWM). She has been AWM Meetings Coordinator and a member of the AWM Executive Committee since August 2018. Prior to becoming a member of the executive committee she served on the Mentor Network Committee (2015–2018) and the Joint Mathematics Meetings Committee (2016–2018).

Recognition

Bucur was named a 2012–2013 Hellman Faculty Fellow by the University of California, San Diego. The award supports junior faculty members in their research and scholarly work as they strive for tenure with the university. Bucur was recognized as a fellow of the Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM) in the class of 2021 "''for supporting the research careers of women in mathematics at crucial career stages: locally, at her institution and region; nationally, through leadership in AWM and Women in Numbers; and internationally, through her impactful work in organizing conferences and workshops.''"

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