ALIA S. HAMIEH (PhD Candidate)

University of British Columbia

Department of Mathematics

Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

CANADA

Office: Room 123, Auditorium Annex

Contact Information: ahamieh@math.ubc.ca

About me: I am a PhD student (2008 - current) at the UBC Mathematics Department under the supervision of Professor Nike Vatsal. I finished my Masters of Science Degree at the American University of Beirut in August 2007 with Professor Kamal Khuri-Makdisi.

Here is the latest version of my Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Modular Forms, Half-Integral Weight Modular Forms, Central Values of Anticyclotomic L-Series, Descent on Elliptic Curves

Here is my Research Statement

Teaching Experience:

• This year I taught Math 184 - Section 102C
• Previously, I taught Math 101, Section 208 - Integral Calculus with applications to Physical Sciences and Engineering – Spring 2011.
• For the current MATH 101 students, here's the midterm 2 review session solution set.
• I also participated in the creation and facilitation of the new TA training program for new graduate students at the UBC Mathematics Department - 2010.

Here is my Teaching Statement

Publications:

• Ternary Quadratic Forms and Half-Integral Weight Modular Forms, LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics, volume 15, pp 418-435.
• Special Values of Anticyclotomic L-Functions Modulo $\lambda$, submitted.

Academic Activities:

• Participant in Arizona Winter School 2009: Quadratic Forms.
• Participant in Sage Days 15 (Seattle: May 2009).
• Participant in PCMI Summer School 2009: Arithmetic of L-series.
• Participant in Arizona Winter School 2011: Stark-Heegner Points.
• Plenary graduate speaker at Palmetto Number Theory Series (PANTS 17) December 2011.
• Participant in CNTA XII (contributed speaker) June 2012.
• Plenary graduate speaker at Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic Forms (TORA III) September 2012.