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Curriculum Vitæ
Heesung Yang

For Heesung's complete CV (PDF), click HERE.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  Number theory: elementary number theory, analytic number theory, combinatorial number theory, transcendental number theory.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

DEGREE HISTORY

MMath	University of Waterloo	2015
BA	Dartmouth College	2012
---	Budapest Semester in Mathematics	2011/09-2011/12	Transfer study-abroad program

THESIS INFORMATION

PhD	Thesis: TBD
	Supervisor: Karl Dilcher
MMath	Research project: On the approximation of real numbers with algebraic integers of low degree
	Supervisor: Cameron L. Stewart
BA	Honours thesis: Unitary untouchable numbers
	Supervisor: Carl Pomerance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019--2022	Nova Scotia Math Circles Teaching Assistant	---	Dalhousie University
2018--	Graduate Teaching Assistant	---	Dalhousie University
2014--2017	Graduate Teaching Assistant	---	University of Waterloo
2012--2013	Graduate Teaching Assistant	---	University of California, Los Angeles
2011/05--2011/08	Undergraduate Researcher	---	Kansas State University
2009--2010	Undergraduate Marker	---	Dartmouth College

COURSES TAUGHT (WILL REDIRECT TO THE TEACHING PAGE)

PUBLICATIONS

1. (with C. Pomerance) Variant of a theorem of Erdős on the sum-of-proper-divisors function, Mathematics of Computation 83 (2014), 1903-1913.

2. (with T. Cochrane and C. V. Spencer) Rational linear spaces on hypersurfaces over quasi-algebraically closed fields, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 44 (2014), no. 6, 1805-1816.

INVITED TALKS

• Variant of a theorem of Erdős on the sum-of-proper-divisors function
  AMS Special Session on Covering of the Integers
  Joint Mathematics Meetings 2013
  San Diego, CA, USA
  2013/01/11
  
  
• Rational linear spaces on hypersurfaces over quasi-algebraically closed fields
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry
  Joint Mathematics Meetings 2012
  Boston, MA, USA
  2012/01/04

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, 2015/04-2015/08, 2016/04-2016/08. (University of Waterloo)
• International Doctoral Student Award, 2015/09-2017/08. (University of Waterloo)
• International Masters Student Award, 2014/09-2015/08. (University of Waterloo)
• Mathematics Graduate Experience Award, 2014/09-2017/08. (University of Waterloo)
• Mathematics Faculty Graduate Award, 2014/09-2017/08. (University of Waterloo)
• Pure Mathematics Departmental Award, 2014/09-2015/04. (University of Waterloo)
• Gazzaniga Family Science Award, 2012/06. (Dartmouth College)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Canadian Mathematical Society
• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America

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