Currently, approximately twenty graduate students at the University of Illinois are writing Ph.D. dissertations in a variety of areas of analytic, algebraic, combinatorial, and elementary number theory. In fact, in recent years about one-third of all advanced graduate students in mathematics have chosen a thesis advisor in number theory. Our recent and current students come from many countries, including the United States, Korea, Taiwan, China, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Singapore, and Australia. Many of these were acquainted with our program in number theory as undergraduates and chose to do their graduate work at Illinois because of our reputation. Several of our current graduate students have written papers, and a list of these papers can be found on our department's web-site. Moreover, during the past five years, over 20 papers were published by our graduate students in number theory while they were still students in residence here. Some of our recent graduates in number theory have received prestigious postdoctoral awards. For example, Kevin O'Bryant received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship which he is using at the University of California at San Diego. Jimmie McLaughlin has a three year postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College. Yifan Yang received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study and is now completing a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore. Jaebum Sohn and Soon--Yi Kang just completed postdoctoral positions at Ohio State University. We are fortunate to have many gifted students in number theory, and we feel that we teach them in a caring atmosphere.

Current Graduate Students in Number Theory:

James Atkinson (jratkins@math.uiuc.edu)

number theory

Zhu Cao (zhucao@math.uiuc.edu)

Number theory

Song Heng Chan (songchan@math.uiuc.edu)

Analytic Number Theory

O-Yeat Chan (ochan@math.uiuc.edu)

Number Theory

Han Duong (handuong@uiuc.edu)

Number Theory

Donald Gibson (djgibson@math.uiuc.edu)

Number Theory

Chadwick Gugg (gugg@uiuc.edu)

Algebraic Number Theory

Tim Huber (tjhuber@math.uiuc.edu)

Analytic number theory

Samuel Kadziela (kadziela@math.uiuc.edu)

Number theory

Tim Kilbourn (tkilbour@uiuc.edu)

Algebraic number theory and modular forms

Sun Kim (ssunny8089@hotmail.net)

Number theory

Younjin Kim (ykim36@uiuc.edu)

Cryptography, Coding theory

Eric Landquist (landquis@math.uiuc.edu)

Computational Number Theory, Cryptography

Jing-Feng Lau (jlau2@uiuc.edu)

Number theory

Andrew Ledoan (ledoan@math.uiuc.edu)

Analytic Number Theory

Stephen Macquire

Analytic number theory

Jennifer Paulhus (paulhus@math.uiuc.edu)

Algebraic Number Theory

Stephanie Treneer (treneer@math.uiuc.edu)

Applications of modular forms to number theory

Andrew Vlasic (avlasic2@math.uiuc.edu)

Analytic number theory

You-Chiang Yi (yyi1@math.uiuc.edu)

Algebraic number theory