Our group
Montreal is home to a large and diverse crowd of analytic and algebraic number theorists, as well as arithmetic geometers, from Concordia University, McGill University and Université de Montréal. Together, they form a very active group, both in terms of research and student supervision.
The Montreal number theory group is an integral part of the Centre Interuniversitaire en Calcul Mathématique Algébrique (or CICMA, for short), which is the number theory lab of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), and which has also members in Quebec City, Burlington, VT, and Ottawa and Kingston, ON. CICMA runs the world-famous Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar (QVNTS), organizes many conferences and workshops, and has a long tradition of hiring outstanding postdoctoral fellows.
In addition, CICMA is an active member of the international Master's program ALGANT.
research in number theory
Number theory is as old as human thought, if not older. Ancient civilizations were preoccupied with many fundamental questions of number theory, both for their intrinsic appeal and elegance as for their practical relevance. Our civilization uses many number theory ideas, ranging from the concept of zero, to the encryption protocols essential to this information age. Over time, our discipline has grown into a mighty banyan tree with extensive branches into other areas of mathematics: analysis, algebraic geometry, representation theory, group theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis, theoretical physics and computer algorithms to name but a few. Indeed, quests into unsolved problems of number theory generate new fundamental concepts in an astounding variety of scientific disciplines.
Our group covers many of the faces of modern number theory. Click on the link below to learn more about our faculty members and their current interests.
