Math Update Winter 2022

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MATHEMATICS UPDATE WINTER 2022

From the chairs In the middle of a challenging academic year that included in-person, hybrid and virtual learning we are grateful to our supportive mathematics community. We want to thank our faculty members who took on additional teaching that enabled the department to serve our thousands of students. We have heard both the successes and the frustrations, and this experience will allow us to learn and grow stronger as a department Faculty highlights include the impressive academic background of our newest faculty hire, number theorist Jaclyn Lang; Associate Professor Matthew Stover’s groundbreaking research regarding a completely geometric characterization of arithmeticity; Professor Shiferaw Berhanu’s appointments as an editor to two additional mathematical journals; and Associate Professor of Instruction Jeromy Sivek’s well deserved CST Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award. This newsletter also highlights the extraordinary careers of some of our mathematics graduates, including pursuing a doctorate in math biology, working as a software engineer for Lockheed Martin and interning with the National Security Agency. You can also learn about the valuable contributions of undergraduate and graduate student tutors who work with Temple students in the department’s Mathematics Consulting Center. We would love to hear from you and invite you to visit us whenever you can. Irina Mitrea, Laura H. Carnell Professor and Chair Brian Rider, Professor and Associate Chair

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After postdoc research at top universities in Europe, number theorist Lang joins Temple Jaclyn Lang, who has spent the past five years doing postdoctoral work at some of Europe’s most prominent institutions, has joined the Mathematics Department as an assistant professor. Lang’s research focuses on p-adic methods to study Galois representations and modular forms, with applications to questions in algebraic number theory. The summa cum laude Bryn Mawr College mathematics graduate, both a BS and MS, earned her doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. That same year, a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant and a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship enabled her to spend three years at Sorbonne Université Paris Nord sandwiched around a year at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany. The past year, she was a Titchmarsh Research Fellow at Oxford University—a decade after she earned the equivalent of a second master’s degree at Cambridge University. “My time at the Max Planck Institute was really productive,” says Lang. “It was the genesis of my work with two other postdocs, Andrea Conti from the University of Luxembourg and Anna Medvedovsky from Boston University, on the algebraic nature of images of pseudorepresentations.” continues on page 4

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