Timothy Cheek

I am a mathematician interested broadly in algebraic/arithmetic geometry and number theory. I graduated from the University of Michigan in four years with a combined B.S/M.S. in (Honors) Mathematics. I was one of the school's two nominees for the 2025 Churchill Scholarship. 

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin. I am a 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, no. 2025383249. 

You can reach me at [initial of first name] [last name] [at] wisc [dot] edu.

Select Research Papers:

1. On the Density of Low Lying Zeros of a Large Family of Automorphic L-Functions, submitted to Research in Number Theory (August 2025). Part of the 2024 SMALL REU. 

2. Numerical Investigation of Lower Order Biases in Moment Expansions of One Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves, (Journal Of Number Theory (August 2025)). Survey submitted to Proceedings of Simons Murmuration Workshop in World Scientific’s Int. J. Data Science in the Mathematical Sciences (November 2024). Part of the 2024 SMALL REU. 

3. Congruence Classes of Simplex Structures in Finite Field Vector Spaces, submitted to Bulletin of the Hellenic Mathematical Society (April 2025). Part of the 2024 SMALL REU. 

Select Conference Presentations:

1. Upper Bounds for the Lowest First Zero in Families of Cuspidal Newforms, AMS Special Session on L-functions, Automorphic Forms, and Their Applications, I; Joint Mathematics Meetings (January 11, 2025; Seattle, WA).

2. Numerical Investigation of Lower Order Biases in Moment Expansions of One Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves (Video), Murmurations in Arithmetic Geometry and Related Topics Conference, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (November 11, 2024; Stony Brook, NY).

3. On the Density of Low Lying Zeros of a Large Family of Automorphic L-functions, Quebec-Maine Number Theory Conference, Laval University (October 5, 2024; Quebec City, CAN).

4. Numerical Investigation of Lower Order Biases in Moment Expansions of One Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves Quebec-Maine Number Theory Conference, Laval University (October 6, 2024; Quebec City, CAN).