Alex Mathers

Email: amathers [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Office: AP&M 1511
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm, Thursday 3-4pm
(With regards to office hours: anybody is free to come chat, but priority will be given to students who are enrolled in the associated course.)

I'm a fourth year PhD student in mathematics at UC San Diego working with Kiran Kedlaya. I am interested in nonarchimedean geometry.

Publications and Preprints

• Nonvanishing of Hecke L-functions and Bloch-Kato p-Selmer Groups, (with Arianna Iannuzzi, Byoung Du Kim, Riad Masri, Maria Ross, and Wei-Lun Tsai), Mathematical Research Letters, 26 (2019), no. 4.

Expository Writing

• A first course on p-adic numbers: these are notes I wrote for an reading group I led as part of UCSD's RTG program; the notes are written as a sequence of problems in lieu of full proofs being given, with hints/breakdown into parts when necessary.

Teaching

This quarter I'm a TA for Math 200B, Graduate Algebra II, with Dan Rogalski.

The following is a list of courses I've previously TA'd at UCSD:

• Fall 2021: Math 200A, (Graduate) Algebra I
• Fall 2021: Math 100A, Abstract Algebra I
• Summer II 2021: Math 142B, Introduction to Analysis II
• Spring 2021: Math 100C, Abstract Algebra III
• Winter 2021: Math 100B, Abstract Algebra II
• Fall 2020: Math 100A, Abstract Algebra I
• Summer I 2020: Math 142A, Introduction to Analysis I
• Spring 2020: Math 187B, Mathematics of Modern Cryptography
• Winter 2020: Math 100B, Abstract Algebra II
• Fall 2019: Math 109, Mathematical Reasoning
• Summer II 2019: Math 18, Linear Algebra
• Spring 2019: Math 109, Mathematical Reasoning
• Winter 2019: Math 109, Mathematical Reasoning
• Fall 2018: Math 18, Linear Algebra