Research in Algebra
Including number theory, algebraic geometry, and combinatorics
We have large groups of researchers active in number theory and algebraic geometry, as well as many individuals who work in other areas of algebra: groups, noncommutative rings, Lie algebras and Lie super-algebras, representation theory, combinatorics, game theory, and coding. A number of members of the algebra group belong to the Research Training Group in Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics, which runs activities and supports grad students and postdocs in its areas of interest.
Courses
Undergraduate upper division courses
Math 110 (and honors version, Math H110). Linear algebra.
Math 113 (and honors version, Math H113). Introduction to abstract algebra.
Math 114. Second course in abstract algebra. (Instructor's choice; usually Galois Theory)
Math 115. Introduction to number theory.
Math 116. Cryptography.
Math 143. Elementary algebraic geometry.
Math 172. Combinatorics.
The Mathematics Department also offers, at the undergraduate level,
courses which may include algebraic topics along with others: Problem
Solving (H90), Experimental Courses (191), a Special Topics course
(195), and several courses of directed and independent individual and
group work (196-199).
Graduate courses
Math 245A. General theory of algebraic structures.
Math 249. Algebraic combinatorics.
Math 250A. Groups, rings and fields.
Math 250B. Multilinear algebra and further topics.
Math 251. Ring theory.
Math 252. Representation theory.
Math 253. Homological algebra.
Math 254A-254B. Number theory.
Math 255. Algebraic curves.
Math 256A-256B. Algebraic geometry.
Math 257. Group theory.
Seminars
2008-2009
Math 290. Seminar - Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, David Eisenbud
Math 290. Seminar - Number theory, Kenneth Ribet
Spring 2009
Math 274. Topics in Algebra - Tropical geometry, Bernd Sturmfels
Math 274. Topics in Algebra - Infinitesimal geometry, Mariusz Wodzicki
Fall 2008
Math 290. Seminar - Algebraic geometry, David Eisenbud and Daniel Erman
Math 290. Seminar - Discrete mathematics, Bernd Sturmfels
Math 290. Seminar - Representation theory, geometry and combinatorics, Mark Haiman and Nicolai Reshetikhin
Math 290. Seminar - Student arithmetic geometry seminar, Martin Olsson
Student Seminar. Student algebraic and arithmetic geometry seminar, David Brown, Daniel Erman and Anthony Varilly
2007-2008
Math 270. Hot Topics - Derived algebraic geometry and topology, Peter Teichner
Math 290. Seminar - Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, David Eisenbud
Math 290. Seminar - Representation theory, geometry and combinatorics, Mark Haiman and Nicolai Reshetikhin
Spring 2008
Math 274. Topics in Algebra - Real p-adic analysis, Robert Coleman
Fall 2007
Math 274. Topics in Algebra - Locally finite lie algebras and their representations with a view toward open problems, Ivan Penkov
Math 290. Seminar - Student representation theory, geometry and combinatorics, Vera Serganova and Peter Tingley
Math 290. Seminar - Number theory, Kenneth Ribet
Math 290. Seminar - Perverse sheaves, Joel Kamnitzer and Xinwen Zhu
Senate Faculty
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| George M. Bergman | Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School | Associative rings, Universal algebra and category theory, Counterexamples |
| Richard E. Borcherds | Professor | Lie algebras, Vertex algebras, Automorphic forms |
| Sylvie Corteel | Professor | Combinatorics |
| David Eisenbud | Professor | Algebraic geometry, Commutative algebra, Computation |
| Edward Frenkel | Professor | Representation theory, Integrable systems, Mathematical physics |
| Mark D. Haiman | Professor | Algebra, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry |
| Robin C. Hartshorne | Professor Emeritus | Algebraic geometry, History of geometry |
| Tsit-Yuen Lam (林節玄) | Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School | Algebra |
| Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr. | Professor Emeritus | Algebraic number theory, Algorithms |
| David Nadler | Professor | Geometric representation theory, symplectic geometry |
| Andrew P. Ogg | Professor Emeritus | Number theory, Elliptic curves, Modular forms |
| Arthur E. Ogus | Professor Emeritus | Algebraic geometry |
| Martin Olsson | Professor | Algebraic and arithmetic geometry |
| Nicolai Reshetikhin | Professor | Mathematical physics, Low-dimensional topology, Representation theory |
| John L. Rhodes | Professor Emeritus | Algebra, Semigroups, Automata |
| Kenneth A. Ribet | Professor | Algebraic number theory, Algebraic Geometry |
| Vera Serganova | Professor | Super-representation theory |
| Vivek Shende | Assistant Professor | Geometry |
| Sug Woo Shin | Associate Professor | Number theory, automorphic forms |
| Zvezdelina Stankova | Teaching Professor & Director, Berkeley Math Circle | Algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics, Olympiad problem solving, Berkeley Math Circle |
| Bernd Sturmfels | Professor | Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Optimization and Statistics |
| Constantin Teleman | Professor | Lie groups, Algebraic geometry, Topology, Quantum field theory |
| Paul A. Vojta | Professor | Diophantine approximation, Nevanlinna theory (especially as related to diophantine approximation), Arakelov theory |
| Lauren Williams | Professor | Combinatorics, and connections to representation theory, geometry, and statistical physics |
| Mariusz Wodzicki | Professor | Non-commutative and algebraic geometry, Analysis, K-theory |
| Melanie Matchett Wood | Professor | Number theory |
| Xinyi Yuan | Associate Professor | Number theory |
Visiting Faculty
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Hélène Barcelo | Visiting Scholar | Algebraic combinatorics, discrete homotopy and homology theory |
| Emiliano Gómez | Lecturer | Number theory, Galois representation |
| Joshua Evan Greene | Simons Fellow and Visiting Fellow | Geometric topology, combinatorics |
| Peter Koroteev | Lecturer | Representation theory, integrable systems, string theory |
| Jeremy Lovejoy | Lecturer | Number theory and combinatorics |
| Alexander Paulin | Lecturer | Number theory, p-adic automorphic forms |
| Arun Sharma | Lecturer | Combinatorics, Ramsey theory, error-correcting codes |
| Kelli Talaska | Lecturer | Algebraic combinatorics |
| Philip Matchett Wood | Lecturer | Probability theory, combinatorics |
Postdocs
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Semeon Artamonov | Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor | Representation theory, topological quantum field theory, noncommutative geometry |
| Daniel Bragg | RTG Post-doctoral Scholar | Algebraic geometry, positive characteristic |
| David Corwin | RTG Post-doctoral Scholar | Arithmetic geometry, arithmetic topology |
| Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins | RTG Post-doctoral Scholar | Arithmetic geometry, p-adic geometry, mathematical illustration, 3D printing |
| Sebastian Eterović | RTG Post-doctoral Scholar | Arithmetic geometry, model theory |
| Martin Speirs | Postdoc | Topological Hochschild homology, algebraic K-theory |
| Dmitry Vaintrob | Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor | Algebraic geometry, mirror symmetry, topology, applications of topological methods to algebraic geometry |
Faculty with Related Research Interests
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Denis Auroux | Professor | Symplectic topology and mirror symmetry |
| Olga Holtz | Professor | Numerical analysis, matrix theory, algebra and combinatorics, computational complexity |
| Ralph McKenzie | Professor Emeritus | General algebra, Logic |
| Calvin C. Moore | Professor Emeritus | Representations and actions of topological groups, Operator algebras |
| Marc A. Rieffel | Professor | Non-commutative harmonic analysis, Operator algebras, Quantum geometry |
| Thomas Scanlon | Professor | Model theory and applications to number theory |
Graduate Students
| Name | Dissertation Supervisor |
|---|---|
| Yulia Alexandr | |
| Emily Bain | |
| Alexander Bertoloni Meli | |
| Madeline Brandt | Bernd Sturmfels |
| Nicolas Brody | |
| Aaron Brookner | |
| Thomas Browning | |
| Michael Christianson | |
| Christopher Eur | David Eisenbud |
| Ravi Fernando | Martin Olsson |
| Anningzhe Gao | |
| Christopher Kuo | |
| Luhang Lai | |
| Calvin McPhail-Snyder | |
| Anya Michaelsen | |
| Kyle Miller | Ian Agol |
| Xianglong Ni | |
| Ritvik Ramkumar | David Eisenbud |
| Isabelle Shankar | |
| Alexander Sherman | |
| Melissa Sherman-Bennett | |
| Joseph Stahl | |
| German Stefanich | David Nadler |
| Ben Wormleighton | David Eisenbud |
| Xiaohan Yan | |
| Mengyuan Zhang | David Eisenbud |
Recent Ph.D.s
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Carney | The arithmetic Hodge-index theorem and rigidity of algebraic dynamical systems over function fields | Xinyi Yuan | 2019 |
| Benjamin Gammage | Microlocal sheaves and mirror symmetry | David Nadler | 2019 |
| Felix Gotti | Matroids and convex geometry in combinatorics and algebra | Lauren Williams | 2019 |
| Christopher R Miller | On the k-Schur Positivity of k-Bandwidth LLT Polynomials | 2019 | |
| Minseon Shin | Computations of the cohomological Brauer group of some algebraic stacks | Martin Olsson | 2019 |
| Dylan Yott | Special Cycles on GSpin Shimura Varieties | Xinyi Yuan | 2019 |
| Shishir Agrawal | Deformations of overconvergent isocrystals on the projective line | David Nadler | 2018 |
| Harrison Chen | A Localization Theorem for Derived Loop Spaces and Periodic Cyclic Homology | David Nadler | 2018 |
| Justin Chen | On Betti Tables, Monomial Ideals, and Unit Groups | David Eisenbud | 2018 |
| Bryan Gillespie | The Generalized External Order, and Applications to Zonotopal Algebra | Olga Holtz | 2018 |
| Watson Ladd | Algebraic Modular Forms on SO5(Q) and the Computation of Paramodular Forms | Ken Ribet | 2018 |
| Daniel Lowengrub | Applications of the Intersection Theory of Singular Varieties | Vivek Shende | 2018 |
| Shelly Manber | Asymptotics of the Tate-Shafarevich Group | Xinyi Yuan | 2018 |
| Tao Su | A Hodge-theoretic study of augmentation varieties associated to Legendrian knots/tangles | Vivek Shende, Richard E.Borcherds | 2018 |
| Brandon Williams | Computing modular forms for the Weil representation | Richard Borcherds | 2018 |
| Anastasia Chavez | Posets, Polytopes, and Positroids | Lauren Williams, Federico Ardila | 2017 |
| Joe Kileel | Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision | Bernd Sturmfels | 2017 |
| Bo Lin | Combinatorics and Computations in Tropical Mathematics | Bernd Sturmfels | 2017 |
| Emmanuel Tsukerman | Combinatorial Analysis of Continuous Problems | Lauren Williams, Bernd Sturmfels | 2017 |
| Qiao Zhou (Elaine) | Applications of Toric Geometry to Geometric Representation Theory | David Nadler | 2017 |
| Chang-Yeon Cho | Topological types of Algebraic stacks | 2016 | |
| Maria Monks Gillespie | A combinatorial approach to the q,t-symmetry in Macdonald polynomials | Mark Haiman | 2016 |
| Will Johnson | Fun with Fields | 2016 | |
| Olya Mandelshtam | Combinatorics of the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process | Lauren Williams | 2016 |
| Alexander Shapiro | Grothendieck resolution, affine Grassmannian, and Yangian | 2016 | |
| Piotr Achinger | Arthur E. Ogus | 2015 | |
| Natth Bejraburnin | Lior Pachter | 2015 | |
| Katrina Honigs | Martin Olsson | 2015 | |
| Adam Kalman | Lauren Williams | 2015 | |
| Eric C. Peterson | Constantin Teleman | 2015 | |
| Zvi Rosen | 2015 | ||
| George W. Melvin | Constantin Teleman |
