Thái Hoŕng Lę - Mathematics Department, UCLA
Email : leth @ math.ucla.edu
Homepage : http://www.math.ucla.edu/~leth
 
Curriculum Vitae
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
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
2009-2010Dissertation 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:
  • Differential and Integral Calculus (Math 31A, Winter 2007)
  • Combinatorics (Math 113, Spring 2007)
  • Analysis (Math 131A, Fall 2007)
  • Integration and Infinite Series (Math 31B, Fall 2008)
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
2009Intersective 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
2008Green-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
2007The multidimensional Szemerédi Theorem (after Furstenberg-Katznelson, 3 expository talks), Participating Analysis seminar, UCLA 
Conferences Attended
2009Analytical 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
2008Western 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 TaoProfessor (thesis advisor), UCLA
Javier CillerueloProfessor, Universitat Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ben GreenProfessor, Cambridge University, UK
Magda AlbertGraduate Advisor (teaching letter), UCLA