Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory. He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.
Education
Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.
Academic career
Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona. In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics. He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017.
Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.
Recognition
Ulmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.
References
- "MR: Ulmer, Douglas L. – 175900". www.ams.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Douglas L. Ulmer". math.arizona.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- Douglas Ulmer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Miller, Haynes. "Instructors at MIT from 1949". Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- "Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry: About the Southwest Center". swc.math.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- Mariano, Willoughby (2011-02-09). "Sen. Isakson says counting $1 trillion takes thousands of years". PolitiFact. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- "Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux". jtnb.math.u-bordeaux.fr. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- "2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Princeton University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Georgia Tech faculty
- University of Arizona faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society