Michael Alexander Daas

After completing my bachelor in physics and mathematics and my master in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, I obtained my doctorate degree at Leiden University in the fall of 2024, under the supervision of Jan Vonk. I work in the field of algebraic number theory.

I am presently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn under mentorship of Don Zagier. My main research interests are p-adic analogues of the work by Gross and Zagier. More precisely, I have studied Galois deformations and used these to explicitly compute the q-expansion of the derivative of a family of p-adic Hilbert modular forms. This approach resembles recent advancements in the newly developed p-adic approach to singular moduli for real quadratic fields using rigid meromorphic cocycles by Henri Darmon and Jan Vonk.

Going further, I intend to strengthen and expand my results to provide an instance of the emerging p-adic Kudla program by examining p-adic height pairings on Shimura curves. Furthermore, I would be very interested to refine my results about the CM-values of p-adic Theta-functions and to study slightly different yet strongly related quantities, to further strengthen the connection between classical CM-theory and the emerging p-adic RM-theory and the theory of rigid meromorphic cocycles. 

Email: daas at the domain mpim-bonn.mpg.de

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