K. Soundararajan

Professor of Mathematics
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall, Building 380
Stanford, CA 94305-2125

e-mail: ksound(at)math(dot)stanford(dot)edu

I moved to Stanford in 2006. Previously I was on the faculty of the University of Michigan. In the past, I have also been supported by the American Institute of Mathematics. I am interested in number theory, especially L-functions and multiplicative number theory.

Mathematics Research Center

Since Autumn 2009, I have been the Director of the Mathematics Research Center (MRC) at Stanford. The MRC funds a large number of the research and outreach activities of the Department. In particular it funds visitors speaking in a number of seminar, the Departmental Colloquium, various distinguished lecture series, and brings in short and long term visitors who are collaborating actively with members of the Department. The MRC also funds activities for undergraduates (such as the Polya seminar and the SUMO Lecture series), and high school students (for example, SUMAC and the Stanford Math Circle). The website for the MRC is in the process of being revamped. A brief summary of recent MRC activities may be found here.

Papers

All of my recent papers have been posted on the arXiv. Here is a link to the recent listings in number theory, and a link to my papers. Please be warned that sometimes the published version may be a little different from the arXiv version. For the publication details you may check MathSciNet.

Journals

I am an editor for the Journal of Number Theory, the International Journal of Number Theory, Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, and The Ramanujan Journal. I am always happy to process good articles for these journals. Several of these journals have online submissions pages; please use these to submit papers.

Number theory seminar

Together with Dan Bump, Brian Conrad, Brian Conrey and Akshhay Venkatesh, I am organizing a Stanford/AIM Number Theory Seminar. Please let one of us know if you would like to visit, or suggest a speaker. Another seminar of interest to number theorists is the Stanford Representation Theory Seminar.

Teaching

Students in my current (Autumn 2011) Math 215A course will find the syllabus and problem sets here.

I will also be running the Polya Seminar on problem solving; this is also offered as the 1 credit course Math 193, but you don't have to sign up for the class to come to the seminars.

I am currently teaching a graduate course on transcendental number theory. Here are Ian Petrow's notes from these lectures.

In winter '06, I taught a graduate course on additive number theory, modeled after Gowers's Part III course at Cambridge. Here are the Notes from these lectures, and problem sets 1, 2, 3, and 4.