I am a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University and an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellow. My research is in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.
I completed my PhD at Princeton University in 2009 under the supervision of Manjul Bhargava.
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My CV.
In Autumn 2009 I am teaching Math 51. The course webpage is here. My office hours are Monday 1:00-2:00 and Thursday 1:30-3:30 in 382-B.
Stanford is an amazing place to be thinking about number theory and algebraic geometry. I am organizing an informal Algebraic Geometry Progress seminar, in which postdocs (and some faculty and students perhaps) will give two-part lectures on some accessible topic related to their interests and work. (See that link also for information about an informal Algebraic Geometry lunch.) There is also the regular Algebraic Geometry seminar and the Student Algebraic Geometry seminar. See also Ravi Vakil's page for Algebraic Geometry at Stanford. For number theory, don't miss the regular Number Theory seminar, the Informal Analytic Number Theory seminar, Erez Lapid's trace formula seminar, or the Modularity Lifting seminar. And don't forget the graduate courses. Whew!