Group – Institute of Algebra, Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Derenthal

PhD students, postdocs, guests

Dr. Nuno Arala Santos (postdoc since 10/2024)
Dr. Christian Bernert (postdoc since 10/2022)
Davide Colpo (Ph.D. student since 10/2024)
Jakob Glas (postdoc since 10/2024)
Gwen Kunde (Ph.D. student since 10/2021)

Former members

Prof. Dr. Ivan Arzhantsev (visiting professor 04-09/2012 at LMU München)
Dr. Peter Bruin (postdoc at Universität Zürich, funded 2011/2012 through SNF grant 124737)
Dr. Yang Cao (Humboldt Research Fellowship 2018-2020)
Dr. Christopher Frei (postdoc 2011-2012, Humboldt Research Fellowship 2012-2015 at LMU München and Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Giuliano Gagliardi (postdoc 2015-2017 and Riemann Instructor 2019-2023 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Damián Gvirtz (postdoc 2019-2020 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Prof. Dr. Philipp Habegger (2010/2011 lecturer at Universität Zürich, partly funded through SNF grant 124737)
Dr. Markus Hanselmann (Ph.D. 02/2012 at LMU München, joint with Jörg Brüdern)
Dr. Norbert Hoffmann (Riemann-Fellow 08-12/2016)
Dr. Zhizhong Huang (Riemann fellow 08-09/2018, postdoc 2018-2020 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Timo Keller (postdoc 2022-2023 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Davide Lombardo (postdoc 2016-2017 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Daniel Loughran (postdoc 2014-2016 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Vladmir Mitankin (postdoc 2020-2023 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Judith Ortmann (Ph.D. 08/2024 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Otto Overkamp (postdoc 2018-2021 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. Marta Pieropan (Ph.D. 06/2015 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Prof. Dr. Tomasz Szemberg (visiting professor 04-09/2013 at LMU München)
Dr. Florian Wilsch (Ph.D. 09/2019 and postdoc 2022-2023 at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Prof. Dr. Dasheng Wei (postdoc 2011-2013 at LMU München, funded through DFG grant)

Supervised theses

Felix Janda: The geometry and arithmetic of a singular cubic surface (Diplom 09/2011, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at ETH Zürich - advisor: R. Pandharipande)
- Gaussian rational points on a singular cubic surface (with U. Derenthal)
  in: Torsors, Étale Homotopy and Applications to Rational Points - Proceedings of the ICMS workshop in Edinburgh, 10-14 January 2011. A. Skorobogatov (Ed.) in: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 405, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 210-231
  [arXiv:1105.2807]
Tamás Korodi: Zentral einfache Algebren und Brauergruppen (Bachelor 09/2011, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at RWTH Aachen - advisor: W. Plesken)
Teresa Schneidermeier: Mittelwerte arithmetischer Funktionen (Bachelor 01/2012, LMU München)
Dr. Markus Hanselmann: Rational points on quartic hypersurfaces (Ph.D. 02/2012, LMU München; joint with Jörg Brüdern)
Christoph Schießl: Hasse-Prinzip und schwache Approximation (Bachelor 04/2012, LMU München)
Daniel Harrer: Parametrization of Cubic Rings (Diplom 04/2012, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at Universität Freiburg - advisor: A. Huber-Klawitter)
Susanne Moll: Rationale Punkte auf einer singulären del Pezzo Fläche (Diplom 06/2012, LMU München)
- Preis für den besten Vortrag in der Kategorie Algebraische Geometrie bei der DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2012
Fabian Gundlach: Brauer-Manin obstructions for sums of two squares and a power (Bachelor 09/2012, LMU München)
- LMU Forscherpreis für exzellente Studierende 2012
- Integral Brauer-Manin obstructions for sums of two squares and a power
  Journal of the London Mathematical Society 88 (2013), no. 2, pp. 599-618
  [doi:10.1112/jlms/jdt042] [Preprint: arXiv:1304.1053]
Felix Rötting: Die Brauer-Manin-Obstruktion zum Hasse-Prinzip und zur Schwachen Approximation auf bestimmten algebraischen Varietäten (Master 10/2012, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at Universität Münster - advisor: U. Hartl)
Andreas Herold: Ein multiplikativer Beweis des Primzahlsatzes (Diplom 10/2012, LMU München)
Wolfgang Zehentner: Gaußsche rationale Punkte auf einer del-Pezzo-Fläche (Diplom 12/2012, LMU München)
Sabine Bauer: Die Manin-Vermutung für eine del-Pezzo-Fläche (Master 03/2013, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in computer science at LMU)
- Hauptpreis bei der DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2013
Dominik Saleta: Der Satz von Hasse und Minkowski über quadratische Formen (Diplom 05/2013, LMU München)
Jakob Zimmermann: Generalized Verma Modules and Noncommutative Determinants (Master 05/2013, LMU München, joint with V. Mazorchuk, Uppsala; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at Uppsala Universitet - advisor: V. Mazorchuk)
Tobias Friedl: Projective Hibi Varieties (Master 08/2013, LMU München, joint with G. Fløystad, Bergen; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at FU Berlin - advisor: R. Sanyal)
- Hauptpreis bei der DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014
Christoph Schießl: Computing the Brauer Groups of Quartic del Pezzo Surfaces (Master 08/2013, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at ETH Zürich - advisor: R. Pandharipande)
Ronja Kuhne: Normality of torus orbit closures - from saturated sets to graph theory (Bachelor 09/2013, LMU München)
Florian Wilsch: Seshadri Constants on Certain K3 Surfaces (Bachelor 09/2013, LMU München; later: my Ph.D. student at Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Anton Freund: Characteristic Spaces of del Pezzo Surfaces (Master 07/2014, LMU München; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Leeds - advisor: M. Rathjen)
- Hauptpreis bei der DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014
- Carathéodory Prize for the best Master's Theses
Fabian Gundlach: Del Pezzo Surface Fibrations of Degree 4 (Master 08/2014, LMU München, joint with Yu. Tschinkel; next: Ph.D. student in mathematics at Princeton University - advisor: M. Bhargava)
- Carathéodory Prize for the best Master's Theses
Dr. Marta Pieropan: Torsors and generalized Cox rings for Manin's conjecture (Ph.D. 06/2015, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dr. habil. Christopher Frei: Rational points via lattice point counting (Habilitation 06/2015, LMU München: Vorsitzender des Fachmentorats)
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Number Theory Group

PhD students, postdocs, guests

Former members

Supervised theses