Research group

Postdocs

Soumya Sankar (started September 2023)

PhD students

• Hsin-Yi Yang (started September 2023)
  Daily supervisor
• Mar Curcó Iranzo (started October 2020)
  Daily supervisor
  Papers:
  1. Rational torsion of generalised modular Jacobians of odd level (ArXiV, 2022).
  2. Power values of power sums: a survey (ArXiV, 2023, with N. Coppola, M. Khawaja, V. Patel, Ö. Ülkem)
  3. Perfect powers that are sums of cubes of a nine term arithmetic progression (ArXiV, 2023, with N. Coppola, M. Khawaja, V. Patel, Ö. Ülkem)

For other members of the Rational Points consortium, please consult the consortium website.

• Leonie Scherer (started July 2023)
  Second supervisor (Daily supervisor: Jakob Stix)
• Dusan Dragutinovic (started September 2021)
  Co-promotor (Promotor: Carel Faber)
  Papers:
  1. Computing binary curves of genus five (ArXiV, 2022).
  2. Supersingular curves of genus four in characteristic two (ArXiV, 2023).
  3. Ekedahl-Oort types of stable curves (ArXiV, 2023).

From left to right: Soumya Sankar, Leonie Scherer, Hsin-Yi Yang, Mar Curcó Iranzo, Dusan Dragutinovic, myself.

Master's students

• Mashal Mehr (started October 2023)
  
• Mees Jager (graduated July 2023)
  Thesis title: The inverse Galois problem with prescribed ramification
• Anne Wouda (graduated June 2022)
  Thesis title: Supersingular isogeny graphs and orientations in cryptography
• Joost Mein (graduated June 2022)
  Thesis title: Entanglement of Galois representations on elliptic curves over Q
• Evie Roebroek (graduated April 2021)
  Thesis title: Using class field theory to find function fields with many rational places

Bachelor's students

• Tom Sinke (started February 2024)
• Javier San Martín (started September 2023)
• Ludo van Wieringen (co-supervision with Dirk Schuricht, graduated June 2023)
  Thesis title: Spin and the representation theory of rotations
• Marlies Hoeksema (graduated June 2022)
  Thesis title: Permutation rational functions over finite fields
• Wijnand van Essen (graduated June 2022)
  Thesis title: Gauss factorials of polynomials over finite fields
• Ruben Vink (co-supervision with Marieke van der Wegen, graduated June 2021)
  Thesis title: Chip-firing games on graphs
• Emilin van Ruiten (graduated January 2021)
  Thesis title: A cryptosystem based on algebraic surfaces
• Fabienne Waanders (graduated January 2021)
  Thesis title: Het gebruik van elliptische krommen bij het zetten van een digitale handtekening (Using elliptic curves for digital signatures)
• Niels van Ee (co-supervision with Damaris Schindler, graduated June 2020)
  Thesis title: Upper bounds for progression-free sets
• Emi Weel (co-supervision with Damaris Schindler, graduated June 2020)
  Thesis title: Bounds on Diophantine tuples with polynomials