Curriculum Vitae

Alan K. Haynes

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

§        Birthdate: 12 March 1980

§        Citizenship: USA

§        Address:   Department of Mathematics

University of York

Heslington, York YO10 5DD

United Kingdom

§        Phone: +44 1904 433093

§        Email: akh502@york.ac.uk

§        Webpage: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~akh502/

 

DEGREES EARNED

§        Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, August 2006.

§        B.S. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, May 2001.

 

ACADEMIC HISTORY

§        University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2006.

§        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2001.

§        California Institute of Technology, 1998-2000.

§        University of North Texas, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, 1996-1998.

 

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

§        Research Associate, University of York, 2008-present.

§        Instructor, Brandeis University, 2007-2008.

§        Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2007.

§        Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2006.

§        Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2003.

 

PUBLICATIONS

§        New results about the classical Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture, in preparation.

§        Distribution functions related to the Farey sequence, in preparation.

§        Farey fractions with denominators in arithmetic progressions, in preparation.

§        Numerators of differences of nonconsecutive Farey fractions, submitted.

§        Intermediate convergents and a metric theorem of Khinchin, submitted.

§        (with K. Homma) The group ring of Q/Z and an application of a divisor problem, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear, 7 pp.

§        (with J. Vaaler), Martingale differences and the metric theory of continued fractions, Illinois J. Math., to appear, 29 pp.

§        Tools and techniques in Diophantine approximation, thesis, 154 pp.

§        The distribution of special subsets of the Farey sequence, J. Number Theory, 107 (2004), no.1, 95-104.

§        A note on Farey fractions with odd denominators, J. Number Theory, 98 (2003), no.1, 89-104.

 

COURSES TAUGHT

§        Instructor at Brandeis University:

o       Analytic Number Theory (graduate course), Spring 2008.

o       Complex Analysis, Spring 2008.

o       Rings and Fields, Fall 2007.

o       Calculus of Several Variables, Fall 2007.

§        Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin:

o       Differential Calculus, Summer 2007.

o       Integral Calculus, Spring 2007, Summer 2007.

o       Number Theory Through Inquiry, Spring 2007.

o       Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2007.

o       Applied Number Theory: Cryptography, Fall 2006.

o       Differential and Integral Calculus I, Fall 2006.

§        Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin:

o       Mathematics for Plan II Honors Liberal Arts, Spring 2006.

o       Undergraduate Research in Number Theory, Summer 2005.

o      Precalculus, Fall 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2004, Summer 2006.

 

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

§        EPSRC grant EP/F027028/1, March 2008-present.

§        Visiting scholar grant (University of York), Summer 2007.

§        Edward Louis and Alice Laidman Dodd Fellowship (UT Austin), Fall 2005.

§        Bruton Fellowship (UT Austin), Spring 2004.

§        VIGRE support (UT Austin), AY 2002-2003.

§        Mathematics department fellowship, Spring 2002.

§        REU summer research support (UIUC), Summer 2001.

 

INVITED TALKS

§        A survey of progress toward the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, Workshop on Shrinking Target Properties, Clay Mathematics Institute, February 2008.

§        Seminar in analytic number theory (three lectures), University of York, May 2007.

§        A slice of analytic number theory, Introduction to Mathematical Research, University of Texas at Austin, January 2007.

§        Martingales and continued fractions, Texas A&M University, October 2006.

§        Farey fractions with odd denominators, Number Theory Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2002.

 

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

§        The group ring of Q/Z and an application of a divisor problem, British Mathematical Colloquium, University of York, March 2008.

§        Farey fractions and the Riemann Hypothesis, Brandeis University, September 2007.

§        Applications of martingale maximal inequalities to metric number theory, Number Theory Fest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007.

§        The generalized Riemann hypothesis and special subsets of the Farey fractions, University of Texas at Austin, November 2004.

§        Sieving methods, twin primes, and the large sieve, University of Texas at Austin, August 2004.

 

GRADUATE PROJECTS SUPERVISED

§        Rachel Betz, Incompatibility of two well known conjectures in number theory, Ph.D. qualifying exam, Spring 2008.

 

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS SUPERVISED

§        Zachary Ladner, Jamie Sloat, Robert Seilheimer, Inequalities for the number of witnesses of composites, Summer 2005.

§        Daniel Cornforth, David Holman, Optimizing algorithms to search for BPSW pseudoprimes, Summer 2005.

§        Chris Robinson, Equivalence classes for convex lattice polygons, Fall 2002.

 

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

§        Member of the American Mathematical Society.

§        Junior member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

§        Organizer for a number theory/ dynamical systems study group (Fall 2007).

§        Reviewer for Math Reviews and active referee for academic journals.

§        Judge for the Siemens-Westinghouse competition (Fall 2006).

§        Organizer for the Number Theory Seminar at UT Austin (Fall 2006).

§        Organizer for a graduate student seminar at UT Austin (2003-2005).

 

TEACHING WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

§        Emerging Scholars instructor workshop, August 2005.

§        Teaching in mathematics, Fall 2001.

 

OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

§        ‘Physics 11’ research group, California Institute of Technology, 1998-1999.

§        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1998.

§        Research in symbolic dynamics, University of North Texas, 1997-1998.

§        Particle accelerator laboratory, University of North Texas, 1996-1997.

 

REFERENCES

§        Jeffrey Vaaler (thesis advisor)

o       Department of Mathematics

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas  78712

o       Phone: (512) 471-7125

o       Email: vaaler@math.utexas.edu

§        Alexandru Zaharescu

o       Department of Mathematics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1409 West Green Street (MC-382)

Urbana, Illinois  61801

o       Phone: (217) 265-5439

o       Email: zaharesc@math.uiuc.edu

§        Dmitry Kleinbock

o       Department of Mathematics

Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts  02454

o       Phone: (781) 736-3059

o       Email: kleinboc@brandeis.edu