University of Utrecht | Department of Mathematics | Gunther Cornelissen

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The picture is a page from "Het bloedig Tooneel, of Martelaars Spiegel" from 1685 (book 1, page 125), displaying Cassianus, a teacher, killed by his students at Imola, AD 302.

I am lucky to have survived guiding various students, so a list of theses I directed since 2003 can be found below. Most titles link to a pdf-file. If you need one that doesn't, contact the author or myself.

"When the very great physicist Bohr was visiting the great physicist Landau in Moscow he was invited to give a talk to the graduate students with Landau translating. Bohr concluded his talk with the assertion ‘I attribute my success to the fact that I have never been afraid to let my students tell me what a fool I am’. The Russian translation ended ‘I attribute my success to the fact that I have never been afraid to tell my students what fools they are’." (T.W. Korner, In Praise of Lectures)

PhD theses


Toroidal automorphic forms for function fields
Oliver Lorscheid
May, 2008

Cohomological aspects of equivariant deformation theory
Jakub Byszewski
May, 2009

Zeta function rigidity - a view from noncommutative geometry
Jan Willem de Jong
October, 2011

Nonarchimedean ergodic rigidity
Janne Kool
expected 2013 - working title

Spin structures and their equivalences for the noncommutative torus and lens spaces
Jan Jitse Venselaar
expected 2013 - working title
winnaar "beste aio 2010" van studentenvereniging A-eskwadraat


Chow rings in triangulated geometry
Sebastian Klein
expected 2014 - working title

Master theses


Tro-p-adical Geometry
Syb Botma
2004 (tweede begeleider: Jan Stienstra)

One step beyond the solvable equation
Sander Bessels
2005 pdf

Elliptic divisibility sequences with complex multiplication
Marco Streng
2006 pdf

The theorem of Riemann-Roch for number fields
Ruden Teuben
2006 pdf

Arithmetic equivalence
Lotte Zalm
2008

Hilbert's Tenth Problem
Esther Bod
2008

Primes in elliptic divisibility sequences
Rutger de Looij
2009

Reconstructive geometry in certain triangulated categories
Sebastian Klein
2009
bekroond met de GQT scriptieprijs 2010 (beste Nederlandse masterscriptie in het vakgebied meetkunde en kwantumtheorie)


Common Divisors of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences over Function Fields
Jori Matthijssen
2011

Average ranks of elliptic curves
Marijke van Bommel
2012

Bachelor theses


De stelling van Dirichlet voor polynomen over eindige lichamen
Ryk Westwood
2002
 
De rang van elliptische krommen onder lichaamsuitbreidingen
Wouter Waalewijn
2003
 
Gehele punten op elliptische krommen
Marius de Leeuw
2003 pdf

Het lokaal-globaal principe voor kegelsneden en elliptische krommen
Martijn Kool
2003 pdf 

De laatste stelling van Fermat voor reguliere priemen
Ruden Teuben
2003 pdf 

Collatz Problems
Willem Maat
2004 pdf

Cyclotome lichaamsuitbreidingen van Q en Fq(T)
Jan-Willem de Jong
2004 ps
 

Analytische bewijzen van de kwadratische en de kwartische reciprociteit
Marco Streng
2004 pdf

Priemgetallen van de vorm x2+ny2
Sander Bessels
2005 dvi

Expanding graphs
Joris Borgdorff
2006 pdf
includes a computer program for Cheeger constant computation
 
Elliptische krommen en klassengetallen
Wouter van der Bilt
2008

K-theory of graphs and buildings
Johan Konter
2009

Elementary proofs of Dirichlet's theorem for polynomials
Daniele Giovannini
2009

Cryptografie met elliptische krommen
Rianne Maes
2009

Graph puzzels and exceptional geometries
Maria Velema
2010

Distances between metric spaces
Thom Klaasse
2010

Groups of polynomial growth
Ederick Ruiz
expected 2011

Others


Computations in the K-theory of C*-algebras of graphs with small Betti number
University College Science Lab SCI 291
Jiannis Visser

2006

Schuifpuzzels, Rubik's Kubus en andere puzzels doorgrond
Junior College Thesis
Valentijn Karemaker, Brigitte Sprenger, Bruno van Albada

2007
bekroond met de Van Melsen Prijs (beste beta-profielwerkstuk), en tweede prijs op International Conference for Young Scientists, St-Petersburg, 2009


Holographic dendrology
Test Problem Thesis Master class "Calabi-Yau Geometries"
Alvaro Veliz Osorio

2009

Zeta Functions on Riemannian Manifolds and Noncommutative Spaces
Test Problem Thesis Master class "Arithmetic geometry and noncommutative geometry"
Ori Yudilevich

2010

On the group completion of the fundamental group of a compact Riemann surface
Test Problem Thesis Master class "Arithmetic geometry and noncommutative geometry"
Javier Saenz

2010

De stelling van Goedel onder een variabele logica
Junior College Thesis
Saskia Chambille, Tessa Matser, Marisse Westbroek

2009