Bianca Viray
Ph.D. Candidate
1047 Evans Hall
Mathematics Department
University of California, Berkeley
email: first initial + last name @math.berkeley.edu
I am a fifth year graduate student studying under Bjorn Poonen. I will be graduating in May 2010. I am currently on the job market for research postdocs. My C.V. can be found here.
I am interested in arithmetic geometry and am currently studying arithmetic questions of Enriques surfaces. This past summer I interned at Microsoft Research in the Crypto group. I worked with Kristin Lauter on problems involving the denominators of the coefficients in Igusa class polynomials.
Previously I worked on problems involving the arithmetic of Châtelet surfaces and the arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces over global function fields. I have also studied the reducibility of Hilbert schemes of points with Dustin Cartwright, Daniel Erman, and Mauricio Velasco.
I am an active member in the Noetherian Ring, an organization for female mathematicians at Berkeley. I am also an active member and co-founder of Unbounded Representation, a student group focused on issues of diversity in mathematics. I served as an officer of the Mathematics Graduate Student Association from January 2006 to December 2008.
This semester I am organizing a new seminar, the Graduate Student Colloquium. It meets on Friday from 11:10-12:00 in 939 Evans.
Papers
- Failure of the Hasse principle for Châtelet surfaces in characteristic 2. submitted.
- A family of varieties with exactly one pointless rational fiber. To appear in J. Théor. Nombres Bordeaux.
- Hilbert schemes of 8 points in Ad with Dustin A. Cartwright, Daniel Erman, Mauricio Velasco. To appear in Algebra Number Theory.