Plenary Speakers
Florian Breuer’s research is guided by a profound passion and curiosity for pure mathematics. His specialty area is number theory, a fascinating field of mathematics that seeks to better understand whole numbers and their properties.
YoungJu Choie is a South Korean mathematician who has been working as a Professor of Mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) since 1990. Since 2018, she is the Director of the Mathematical Institute at POSTECH. Her research interests include number theory and modular forms. She has been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2013, and a Member of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology since 2018. She served as President of the KWMS (Korea Women in Mathematical Sciences) in 2017 and Academic Vice President of the Korean Mathematical Society from 2019 to 2020.
Julia Gordon got her PhD at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Thomas Hales; after the postdocs at IAS and the University of Toronto, she has been working at the University of British Columbia since 2006. In 2019 she was awarded the Krieger-Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for her work with Raf Cluckers and Immanuel Halupczok.
Tim Trudgian has been on the faculty at UNSW Canberra since 2017. He enjoys cricket and classical music, and, increasingly, being beaten by his sons in chess. There is hope for the next generation after all!
Chenyan Wu is a lecturer at School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Melbourne. She is most interested in Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry. Currently she is focusing on automorphic forms, theta correspondence, L-functions, endoscopy, periods and Abelian varieties.
Liangyi (Lee) Zhao grew up in New Jersey USA and studied at Rutgers University. After working in various institutions in the US, Canada, Sweden and Singapore, he joined the pure mathematics department in the University of New South Wales in 2015. His research interests lie in analytic number theory, more specifically, the theories of L-functions, the large sieve, exponential sums, and character sums.
Alexander Dunn is an Olga Taussky & John Todd Instructor (postdoc) in Mathematics at Caltech, under the mentorship of Maksym Radziwill. He works in number theory and analysis.
He received his PhD in May 2020 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jointly advised by Scott Ahlgren and Alexandru Zaharescu. Beforehand, he completed his MPhil and Bachelor of Science at The University of Queensland.