Professional information
XUAN-KIEN PHUNG (Ph.D)
E-mail : phungxuankien1[at]gmail.com
About myself
2023 - : Lecturer, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal
2020 - 2022 : Postdoctoral researcher, McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal
2019 - 2020 : Teaching and research associate (ATER), Université de Strasbourg
2016 - 2020 : PhD in mathematics (thesis defended on the 6th of March 2020), IRMA, Université de Strasbourg
2015 - 2016 : Master 2, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay
2012 - 2016 : Ingénieur polytechnicien, promotion X-2012, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau
My Erdös number is 4 and my Einstein number is 5 (thanks to T. Ceccherini-Silberstein)
Languages : Vietnamese (mother tongue), French (fluent), English (fluent: TOEIC 945/990), German (basic notions)
My works can be found here
Current research interests
Arithmetic and Hyperbolic Geometry
- Generalized integral points and sections in fibrations over Riemann surfaces
- Uniformity related problems of integral points and sections on algebraic varieties
Geometry and Dynamics of Groups
- Asymptotic Group Theory (sofic groups, amenable groups, etc.)
- Symbolic algebraic varieties (surjunctivity, Garden of Eden theorem, etc.)
- Generalized group shifts and group rings (Kaplansky's conjectures, shadowing property, etc.)
Automata, Cellular automata, Complexity of infinite words
Computational social choice (Kemeny problem, ranking aggregation, voting theory, etc.)
Mixed Integer Programming and applications
(Recently) Model theory and o-minimal theory
(Recently) Nevanlinna theory