Curriculum Vitae
Full name: Mr Siu-lun Alan Lee
Date of Birth: 2 August, 1986
Sex: Male
Nationality: Hong Kong
Occupation: Research Mathematician
Supervisor: Prof. Trevor Wooley
Research interests: Number theory, Hardy-Littlewood Method, diophantine equations and inequalities
Address: School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom
Telephone: (+44)07786850945
E-mail address: sl5701@bris.ac.uk or alanphenyl@hotmail.com
Webpage: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~sl5701
Education:
Institute
University of Bristol
Period
2009-present
University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall)
2008-09
University of Bristol
SKH Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School
(HK)
2005-08
1998-2005
Rosaryhill Primary School (HK)
Grant:
1992-98
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Qualification
PhD in Mathematics
Anticipated date of thesis submission: 27 March,
2013
Thesis title: Applications of the circle method in
function fields and related topics
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics
(with distinction)
Completed project on the Number of Distinct
Products in a Multiplication Table
BSc in Mathematics (1st Hons)
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL),
computer-based test (2004); total score: 247/300
University of Bristol Overseas Centenary Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2009-present.
Publications:
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Forms in many variables over algebraic function fields, in preparation.
Birch’s theorem in function fields, Proc. London Math. Soc. (2012), submitted.
On Waring’s Problem: Two Cubes and Two Minicubes, Acta Arith. 151 (2012), 377-399.
Talks given in conferences:
Conference
Analytic Methods for
Diophantine Equations
Date
June 2012
Venue
Goettingen
Title of talk
Forms in many variables
over algebraic function
fields
Birch’s theorem in
function fields
Young Researchers in
Mathematics
April 2012
Bristol
Paul Turan Memorial
Conference
August 2011
Budapest
Birch’s theorem in
function fields
Mingle Conference
October 2010
Bristol
On Waring’s problem: two
cubes and two minicubes
Other conferences attended:
Conference
Heilbronn Conference
EU-Young and Mobile Workshop:
Dynamical Systems and Number
Theory
Analytic Number Theory
Conference
Talk given in seminars:
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Date
Sept 2010
May 2010
Venue
Bristol
Edinburgh
April 2010
Goettingen
Forms in Many Variables over Function Fields – in Linfoot seminar, Sept 2011
Waring’s Problem and the Circle Method – in Junior Number Theory seminar, Nov 2010
Talks given in reading groups (from most recent):
Title of talk
Differential forms – applications
Differential forms – introductions
Hecke operators for the full modular group
Introduction to modular forms
Hecke’s Groessencharakters
Rational approximation avoiding certain prime numbers
Khinchin’s approximation theorem
Introduction to Goldston, Pintz and Yildirim’s work on gaps between
consecutive prime numbers
Reading group
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic Geometry
Modular Forms
Modular Forms
Langlands Programme
Diophantine Approximation
Diophantine Approximation
Analytic Number Theory
Teaching experience:
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Giving tutorials for 1st year Mathematics undergraduates on Calculus and Analysis during October
2010 – May 2011
Teaching assistant for students learning MatLAB during October – December 2007
Other relevant experience:
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Organised a free public screening of the movie Vegucated in Bristol in July, 2012
Organised a small Analytic Number Theory reading group in 2009-10 based on Goldston, Pintz and
Yildirim’s work on gaps between consecutive primes
References:
Name
Prof. Trevor Wooley
Relationship
PhD supervisor
Dr. Tim Browning
Researcher with similar
research theme, having
attended several of my
talks
Close collaborator with
my supervisor, having
attended two of my
conference talks
Prof. Joerg Bruedern
Address
School of Mathematics,
University of Bristol,
University Walk, Bristol
BS8 1TW
School of Mathematics,
University of Bristol,
University Walk, Bristol
BS8 1TW
Mathematisches Institut,
Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen
Bunsenstr. 3-5
37073 Göttingen
Email
trevor.wooley@bris.ac.uk
t.d.browning@bris.ac.uk
bruedern@unimath.gwdg.de