| Thái Hoŕng Lę - Mathematics
Department, UCLA Email : leth @ math.ucla.edu Homepage : http://www.math.ucla.edu/~leth |
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Curriculum Vitae
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| Education | |
| 2005-Present | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Ph.D. in Mathematics (expected 2010). Research interests: Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory. Advisor: Prof. Terence Tao |
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| 2004-2005 | University of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie), Paris, France |
| M.S. in Mathematics (M2 Algčbre et Géométrie) | |
| 2002-2004 | Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France |
| B.S. in Mathematics | |
| 1999-2001 | Hanoi Pedagogic University, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Majored in Mathematics | |
| Academic Visits | |
| 2008 (August - September) | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| Participant of the program on Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics | |
| 2008 (January - March) | Centre de Recerca Matemŕtica , Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain |
| Participant of the DocCourse in Additive Combinatorics. Supervisor: Prof. Javier Cilleruelo | |
| 2005 (March - July) | Computer Science Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France. |
| Master's thesis on applications of pairings in Cryptography. Supervisors: Prof. Jacques Stern and Phong Nguyen | |
| 2004 (April - July) | Mathematics Department, Universiteit Leiden, the
Netherlands. |
| Senior thesis on Mihăilescu's proof of Catalan's conjecture. Supervisor: Prof. Peter Stevenhagen | |
| Awards and Honors | |
| 2009-2010 | Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA |
| 2005-2006 & 2008-2009 | Pauley Fellowship, UCLA |
| 2002-2005 | Scholarship of Ecole Polytechnique |
| 2001 |
Honorable mention in Vietnamese Informatics Olympiad for undergraduate students |
| 1999 | Gold medal in 40th International Mathematical Olympiad (Romania) |
| Gold medal in 11th Asian-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad (Vietnam) | |
| Second prize in Vietnamese Mathematical Olympiad | |
| 1998 | Bronze medal in 39th International Mathematical Olympiad (Taiwan) |
| Second prize in Vietnamese Mathematical Olympiad | |
| Teaching Experiences | |
| 2007-2008 |
Teaching Assistant, Mathematics
Department, UCLA. Couses taught include:
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| 2004-2005 |
Tutor at Mathematics Department,
Ecole Polytechnique. Taught Real Analysis, Differential Equations, Theory of Distributions. |
| 2003-2004 | Volunteer teaching for poor children in Massy, France. |
| 2000 | Taught students at the Mathematical Specialized Section High School of Pedagogic University who were preparing for the national mathematical olympiad |
| Publications | |
| Sárközy's theorem in function fields, in preparation. | |
| (with Craig Spencer) Difference sets and the irreducibles of Fq[t], preprint. | |
| Intersective polynomials and the primes, submitted. | |
| Green-Tao theorem in function fields, submitted. | |
| (with J. Cilleruelo) On a question of Sárközy on gaps of product sequences, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics. | |
| Talks | |
| 2009 | Intersective polynomials and the primes, AMS Western Sectional Meeting, special session on arithmetic combinatorics, UC Riverside, CA. |
| Intersective polynomials and the primes, Integers 2009, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. | |
| Additive structures in difference sets (after Bergelson-Ruzsa, expository talk), Participating Analysis seminar, UCLA | |
| Green-Tao Theorem in function fields, Journées Arithmétiques, Université de St. Etienne, France | |
| Green-Tao Theorem in function fields, CANT 2009, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY | |
| Arithmetic combinatorics in function fields, Number Theory seminar, Universitat Autónoma de Madrid, Spain | |
| 2008 | Green-Tao Theorem in function fields, Western Number Theory Conference, Colorado State Universtiy, Fort Collins, CO |
| Aspects of Sárközy's Theorem, Harmonic Analysis/Ergodic Theory/Additive Combinatorics student seminar, UC Berkeley | |
| On a question of Sárközy, CANT 2008, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY | |
| On a question of Sárközy, CRM, Bellaterra, Spain | |
| 2007 | The multidimensional Szemerédi Theorem (after Furstenberg-Katznelson, 3 expository talks), Participating Analysis seminar, UCLA |
| Conferences Attended | |
| 2009 | Analytical Methods in Combinatorics, Additive Number Theory and Computer Science, December 1-4, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA. |
| AMS Western Sectional Meeting, November 7-8, University of California, Riverside, CA. | |
| Integers 2009, October 14-17, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. | |
| Probabilistic Techniques and Applications, October 5-9, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Journées Arithmétiques, July 6-10, Université de St. Etienne, France. | |
| Activités Additives et Analytiques, June 30-July 4, Université de Lille I, France | |
| CANT 2009 (Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory), May 26-29, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY | |
| AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 5-8, Washington, DC | |
| 2008 | Western Number Theory Conference, December 15-18, Colorado State Universtiy, Fort Collins, CO |
| Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics, November 3-7, MSRI, Berkeley, CA | |
| Introduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics, August 25-29, MSRI, Berkeley, CA | |
| Broader Connections: Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics, August 21-22, MSRI, Berkeley, CA | |
| Canadian Number Theory Association X Meeting, July 13-18, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada | |
| Summer school in Analytic number theory and Diophantine approximation, June 30-July 11, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada | |
| CANT 2008 (Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory), May 21-24, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY | |
| Conference in Harmomic Analysis, Number Theory and Additive Combinatorics, April 4-13, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| DocCourse on Additive Combinatorics, January-March, CRM, Bellaterra, Spain | |
| 2007 | Mini conference in Arithmetic Combinatorics, December 11-13, IAS, Princeton, NJ |
| Integers 2007, October 24-27, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA | |
| Summer School on Iwasawa Theory, August 9-13, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada | |
| Summer School on Dynamical Systems and Number Theory, July 9-13, Technical University of Graz, Austria | |
| 2005 | Parings in Cryptography, June 12-15, Dublin City University, Ireland |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese: native language | |
| French: fluent | |
| English: fluent | |
| Spanish: near fluency (completed UCLA's 2-year lower division sequence) | |
| Italian: elementary | |
| German: elementary | |
| Latin: elementary (currently studying) | |
| References | |
| Terence Tao | Professor (thesis advisor), UCLA |
| Javier Cilleruelo | Professor, Universitat Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| Ben Green | Professor, Cambridge University, UK |
| Magda Albert | Graduate Advisor (teaching letter), UCLA |