I’m happy to report that both of my graduating Ph.D. students have settled on plans for the next few years. Guillermo Mantilla-Soler will be a postdoc at UBC; Ekin Ozman will spend a year on an EPDI fellowship in Barcelona, Paris, and Bonn, and then will return to the US for a postdoc at UT-Austin.
Meanwhile, by the law of conservation of promising young number theorists, we have two new postdocs joining us at UW as part of our new RTG in algebraic geometry and number theory: David Brown, who just finished his Ph.D. under Bjorn Poonen at Berkeley, and Bryden Cais, a former student of Brian Conrad who comes to us from a CRM postdoc at McGill.
Fun!
Please pass on my congratulations to Ekin and Guillermo!
And you’ll like David, I heard him give a seminar talk. It was one of those talks where I looked at the title and thought “Shit, I’m not going to understand a damn thing” but actually got something out of it.
Please pass along my congratulations to them both!!
You’ll like Bryden too. (Or, at least, I do.) He spent his early years learning modular forms, classical complex function theory and Ramanujan-type-math. He then became Brian’s student and learned how to manipulate various p-adic cohomology theories. It’s an unusual pair of strengths.