Douglas Ulmer
{{short description|American mathematician}}
Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.{{cite web|title=MR: Ulmer, Douglas L. – 175900|url=https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/MRAuthorID/175900|website=www.ams.org|accessdate=7 May 2017|language=en}} He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.{{cite web|title=Douglas L. Ulmer|url=http://math.arizona.edu/people/ulmer|website=math.arizona.edu|accessdate=August 19, 2017|language=en}}
Education
Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.{{MathGenealogy|id=4482}}
Academic career
Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.{{Cite web|url=http://www-math.mit.edu/~hrm/moores.txt|title=Instructors at MIT from 1949|last=Miller|first=Haynes|access-date=30 June 2017|archive-date=8 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608181031/http://www-math.mit.edu/~hrm/moores.txt|url-status=dead}} In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona.{{Cite web|url=http://swc.math.arizona.edu/misc/aboutSWC/index.html|title=Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry: About the Southwest Center|website=swc.math.arizona.edu|access-date=2017-06-30}} In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics.{{cite web|url=http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/feb/09/johnny-isakson/sen-isakson-says-counting-1-trillion-takes-thousan/ |title=Sen. Isakson says counting $1 trillion takes thousands of years |website=PolitiFact |date=2011-02-09 |access-date=2018-03-14 |last=Mariano |first=Willoughby}} He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017.
Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.{{cite web|title=Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux|url=https://jtnb.math.u-bordeaux.fr/jtnbedit_english.html#redaction|website=jtnb.math.u-bordeaux.fr|accessdate=2 January 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.math.arizona.edu/~ulmer/Ulmer-cv-short.pdf |title=Curriculum vitae |accessdate=2 January 2020 |website=Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona}}
Recognition
Ulmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2025|title=2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2024-11-01}}
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
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